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.

  • @simplymath
    2•28 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•28 days ago

      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.

      • @simplymath
        1•28 days ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]OP
          1•28 days ago

          The dd command is exactly what scares me about it haha, I’ve bricked adapters before!

          Cdrecord is going just fine with the command I’m using but the GUI for brasero is what is still confusing me. I got k3b though so once I’m back at that disk drive (likely tomorrow) I’ll give that a shot, and try to just say “yes” to that overwrite of sr0 (or sr1 or whatever it is at the time) on brasero.

          • @simplymath
            1•28 days ago

            If in reading lurch’s comment correctly, he says it’s /dev/cdrom and not srX, but that the wrong thing won’t break anything.

            • @[email protected]OP
              1•28 days ago

              Well /dev/cdrom disappeared on me and hasn’t come back, /dev/sr0 is the correct device (when using cdrecord) unless my charger is plugged in, then it’s /dev/sr1.

              But cool, as long as it won’t break anything I’ll try it!