[kde-linux] CD drive problem

[Ernie Schroder]

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:53, a tiny voice compelled mihail at riseup.net to 
write:
> Hello:
>
> I got a new laptop a few months back and decided it was a good time to
> move off Micro$oft so had Fedora 3 with KDE installed on it. I am no
> techno head but have managed OK with it with one massive exception: I
> can't get the CD drive to work.
>
> When I try and copy files choosing CD as the destination it gives the
> following response:
> Error-kio-devices-mounthelp
> /dev/hdc: Invalid argument
> mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock
> Please check that the disk is entered correctly.
>
> There is no problem reading CDs with KDE. And from a Windows partition I
> luckily had put in 'just in case' it is no problem to write CDs, so the
> machine is not at fault.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I can fix this. It is really a bugger as I only
> have a small USB drive and no floppy, to backup to so am not backing up
> properly which is very worrying.
>
> Perhaps the easiest thing would be to access the Linux side from Windows
> and back up the files using Windows as that works? I have looked from
> Windows but can't find any Linux directories.
>
> Thanks,
>
> me!
>

you can't simply write individual files to a cd. To do that you would need to 
set up packet writing and write to a formatted cd-rw
This how-to is written for Gentoo Linux, but should be aplicable to fedora.
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Regards, Ernie