burning CD-R's

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:09:08PM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > I haven't tried burning a CD with Nautilus, but you should not try to
> > mount the CD-R (you cannot because there is no file type before you do
> > the burning).  I have used K3b and graveman (both of which are nice),
> > but I keep going back to the command line when burning .iso files (which
> > works for me every time):
> > 
> > sudo cdrecord -pad -v -eject -driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdrom  <filename.iso>
> > 
> > Or, in script form:
> > 
> > $cat ~/bin/makecd.sh
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > sudo cdrecord -pad -v -eject -driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdrom $1
> 
> Why are you running as root?

I always seem to have some sort of problem running as a normal user.  
Back with 2.4 kernels and scsi emulation, it was an SCSI error.  Now I 
get:

cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording.
cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.

When I run as root, I don't get that error. My drive has rw permissions
for the cdrom group and I am a member of that group.  I haven't been 
able to track down the real problem.