cdrecord setup for debian

[utanja]

i have never burn a cd iso file under debian linux....i cannot get cdrecord to function...
it does not recognize my CDRW......here is my fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 vfat users,owner,rw 0 2
/dev/hda6 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 /opt reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/hda9 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

please advise
:)

[whig]

With any luck your distro (Sid) comes cd-writing capable because it can be daunting for mere users to configure, for instance requiring a kernel recompile. I've been depending on the ide-scsi module with cdrecord but now I see that method is deprecated with kernel 2.6. On my next recompile I'll have to try the ide-cd module and no scsi support...

Of all cdr debugging commands the best are these two:

dmesg | less
cdrecord -scanbus (as root)