[arch-general] CD / DVD Drive - Issues and a really sloppy solution

[Thaddeus Nielsen]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:40:25PM -0700, Zanterian wrote:
> Hello fellow arch enthusiasts,
> 
> I had a friend who wanted me to burn an audio disk for him. What I
> thought would have been an easy task turned into a nightmare.
> 
> I use Brasero on Gnome 3. Everything I tried would end in disaster,
> and nothing would get written.
> Then it would give me a log saying
> 
> could not find burn:// directory
> 
> After looking around, I noticed I don't have a /dev/cd or a /dev/dvd
> 
> Finding that strange, I did the command
> 
> dmesg | grep ide
> 
> with this as the result
> [    5.287548] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
> xa/form2 cdda tray
> 
> So this is where I made the sloppy solution:
> I manually made two symlinks (/dev/cd & /dev/dvd) that point to
> /dev/sr0. This gave me back the ability to burn disks.
> 
> 
> So my main question is what do I do from here? Is this a bug?
> I don't want to have this solution as it was just me writing
> educated-guesses-for-links and then trying to burn a disk with  my
> fingers crossed.
> My arch system is up to date and does not use any of the [testing]
> repositories.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Eric
> 

You should look into the setup for Brasero and see if you can change the
device.  I stopped using it quite a while ago and use a command from a
terminal.
	T.