[PLUG] CD-ROM burner.

b kielhorn bkielhorn45 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 22:19:49 UTC 2010


I have a "new" machine from FreeGeek that is running Slackware 13.0.
I would like to burn a data CD-ROM, so I installed a package called
"kb3."  When I run "kb3" it complains that it cannot find any burner
hardware.  Looking inside the box, I see I have a Samsung SM-348 with
CD-RW/DVD.

I am able to read from the device.

Should I be able to write CD-ROMS with the device?

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When I run "k3b" as root, I get:

                  <unknown program name>(4164)/: KUniqueApplication:
Cannot find the D-Bus session server

                  <unknown program name>(4163)/: KUniqueApplication:
Pipe closed unexpectedly.

When I run "k3b" as non-root,  a GUI starts but a message comes up
saying it can't find s CR-Rom  writer.

Diagnostics I have tried (I don't know much about hardware):

   1) I grepped dmesg  for SAMSUNG using:

                 dmesg | grep -i SAM

        This gives only:
                           hda: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive

        which I think is my hard-drive and not the CD_ROM.  (I can
read CDs though?)

    2)  I ran "cdrecord -scanbus"  which gives:

                  Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a57
(i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Jörg Schilling
                  Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
                  Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
                  scsibus4:
                                4,0,0   400) 'Generic ' 'USB SD Reader
  ' '1.00' Removable Disk
                                4,1,0   401) *
                                4,2,0   402) *
                                4,3,0   403) *
                                4,4,0   404) *
                                4,5,0   405) *
                                4,6,0   406) *
                                4,7,0   407)

           I am not sure what this means.
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If anyone has an idea about what is wrong, please let me know.

Thanks.



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