Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device SOLVED

[alain.didierjean@free.fr]

Selon alain.didierjean@free.fr:

> Selon Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
>
> > On Saturday 11 September 2010 17:01:29 alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > > Selon Stéphane Guedon <stephane@22decembre.eu>:
> > > > Le Monday 06 September 2010 17:11:17, alain.didierjean@free.fr a écrit
> :
> > > > > Selon Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>:
> > > > > > On 6 Sep 2010, at 09:55, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > > > > > > For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as
> such
<snip>
> > > > So, you're not using the latest drivers (scsi emultation of ata hdd)...
>
> > >
> > > I use <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED)  ---> in Device Drivers
> as
> > > I've done in the past, and it used to work fine
> >
> > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon and select the
> > appropriate SCSI drivers for your drives.  There's been a few messages on
> > this
> > list explaining how to go about it.
>
> Done. Works both for cdrom unit and old IDE disk, whch now are know as sr0
> (ex hda) and sdc (wax hdc). cdrecord --checkdrive says


> But that silly k3b returns
> No optical drive found.
> K3b did not find any optical device in your system.
> Solution : Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding
> devices.
>  and on the terminal

Finally solved, a matter of permissions for cdrecord and cdrdao, as explained in
/usr/share/doc/k3b-2.0.0/PERMISSIONS.bz2. I've been fooled by this stupid error
message. Thanks to all who helped,

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