I’m having an issue trying to burn a music CD for use in my (very old, I know I know) car. I’m running FedoraKDE (40) and Brasero, a Liteon brand external optical DVDRW drive, CD-R (TDK brand), and a Framework 16.
The issue I’m having seems to be that the blank disks(maybe?) aren’t recognized automatically by Fedora, when I pop a full commercially released CD in it’ll play/rip, but with a blank disk nothing happens, and I don’t know where to “save” the “image” of this album I’m creating in Brasero to get it on the disk.
Someone on a random linux forum told some other guy to run cdrecord -checkdrive which says my drive is at /dev/sr0 with a blank disk, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten. Do I choose sr0 as the place to save it? It says “something something overwrite” when I try which makes me wary, it seems it wants to overwrite “sr0” itself and either bork my drive or install, but maybe?
I’m positive it’s just something simple I’m missing, any help would be greatly appreciated and I can answer questions and run commands if needed (but I don’t actually have WIFI rn, so I’ll have to have the package for said command already.)
Thanks in advance.
Ah ok, that may be the ticket then, but it makes me really nervous to brick the drive itself or “sr1” itself. There used to be an /dev/cdrom but that is gone now.
Another user says that you’re not going to brick the drive and that anything you do will probably be fixed by a reboot. If you want to be sure you’re not writing to the main file system drive, the best method is to physically disconnect the device to see that the dev/srX disappears when you do so. At least, that’s the method I’ve always used when burning SD cards for a raspberry pi.
I’ll give it a shot when I’m back at it, thanks! I don’t mean bricking my ssd though I mean bricking the liteon optical drive.
Look at the top level comment by the user, lurch. If I’m understating him correctly, a reboot should fix it in case that happens. Generally you need to run the dd command to brick stuff in the way you’re imagining. It’s short for either disk duplicator or disk destroyer (if you fuck up). I suspect the cdrecord utility would prevent you from doing anything too stupid on accident.