On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Jude DaShiell
Your drive could need cleaning, or have worn out, or in some way have been disconnected. Those kind of drives have to be replaced every so often. If it's a usb drive, have you done a modprobe usbmass yet? If not, that may be all you need to get things going. If you read dmesg does the cd drive even show up as a valid device now? If not, maybe insmod usbmass will fix that and get you burning.
I have both drives, and they both seem OK. IDE one is sr0 and USB one is sr1: [ 4.894446] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 4.894452] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 4.894842] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 ... [21171.638369] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd [21171.655770] usb 2-2: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0 microframes [21171.655781] usb 2-2: ep 0x86 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0 microframes [21171.700222] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [21171.704428] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [21171.704526] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [21171.704530] USB Mass Storage support registered. [21171.706759] scsi7 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0 [21171.707035] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-cypress [21174.637779] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202J SB02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [21174.745896] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [21174.746166] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 I don't think any of the drives has worn out... It's too much of a coincidence cdrecord has problems with both... Your comment suggests that you would expect cdrecord to work OK. So maybe you don't have any problems with it... Thanks, -- Javier.