Burning DVDs

[Robert Marella]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:50:34 +0200
edward <kouye at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
> My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to
> burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to 
> create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something
> wrong in the drive's read/write permission. I checked the /etc/fstab
> file for read/write status and I got the following :
> 
> # Device           Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass# /dev/ad0s3b        none            swap    sw
> 0       0 /dev/ad0s3a        /               ufs     rw
> 1       1 /dev/acd0          /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto
> 0       0
> 
> This was the default set up that I haven't altered (yet...). Is there
> a reason why the DVD drive would be set in read only mode, as a
> default ? Should I just launch vi and edit the line from ro,noauto to
> rw,noauto or is there another way ?
> Thanks,
> Edward
> 
> 

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