Okay....sorry for the length of the following but I am entirely baffled by all of this.

Just to clarify, I only have 1 cd-rw drive, and I wanted to eject the cd running knoppix so I could free it up to back up some data files. I don't have a usb hard drive or an external burner. I tried the toram command but I am just short of the required RAM, so that's not working. My system was a windows XP home, which I believe is NTFS, so I wouldn't be able to use TOHD, right? I was able to find a way to eject the cd which i found in another thread ....I typed this in and it worked, and then i put in a blank data cd

$sudo umount -l /cdrom
$sudo eject /dev/cdrom

However, K3B wouldn't burn my cd after i did this....it said something about not being able to write the iso file- which is confusing because i was trying to burn mp3's and doc files. Is there any way to get it to work?

OErjan-

When I type in cdrecord- scanbus, I get a lot of info - "this version of cdrecord is an inofficial release......", and then it says
Linux sg driver version 3.1.25
using libscg version 'schily-0.8'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241N A100 removable CD-ROM
and then numbers 1 thru 7 with stars next to them

when i type in dmesg | grep CD I get

hdc: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4241N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Type: CD-rom
and then some more similar stuff


many thanks

Andre