On Sunday 12 September 2010 17:27:36 alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> 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,

Glad you solved it!

My permissions are:

$ ls -la /usr/bin/cdrecord 
-rws--x--x 1 root root 314352 Jul 22 16:51 /usr/bin/cdrecord

$ ls -la /usr/bin/cdrdao
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 569352 Jul 22 16:55 /usr/bin/cdrdao

and I had to add my user to the cdrom group, but both of the above binaries 
are not in the cdrom group.
-- 
Regards,
Mick