need Help burn ing MP3s

**5t1nkbu77** · 09-25-2003, 07:45 AM

I managed to fxxk my mp3 drive with partition magic and Win98. Win98 doesn't see it, and Debian freezes when I try to mount it. Luckily the Knoppix CD sees it and I can play them. Can anyone help me back them up. I am a complete NewB, and I tried kb3, but when I dragged and dropped them to the right screen and pushed the burn button, a dialog came up and the WRITE button was greyed out, and the devices pull-down was empty.

Great job Klaus and Knoppix team.

JPMcW

**Dan_Netwalker** · 09-25-2003, 10:56 AM

Maybe a problem of linux not mounting the drive as a virtual scsi, If I'm not wrong that is the way the cdr program in linux work with ide cdr drives. Check the cheatcodes, there's something like "ide-scsi=/dev/hdx" to force a drive into scsi emulation, I don't remember exactly how it was.

Alternatively, here's another solution:
A) Find someone you can borrow an USB drive from, or another recordable media that knoppix could use. The bigger the better. If the collection is huge, try to find a Handydrive or a backup tape unit.
B) Boot from knoppix. Mount both the damaged partition and the device.
C) copy the files to the drive
D) delete the partition, create a new one, format, place the files on their original place.
E) remove the sweat of you forehead, your mp3 apocalypsis is over! :P

The CDR is a good bet, and you will have a safe copy of you mp3
(...I'll supose they are a legal backup of your music CDs, isn't they?

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**5t1nkbu77** · 09-25-2003, 09:21 PM

Hi Dan, it was late last night when was messing with this stuff, and the sweat from my brow was burning my eyes. Thanks for your help, I realize I should have given more info on my situation. My MP3 drive is IDE--only about 5GB, and all legal copies of purchased CDs of course. Anyway my CD drives are SCSI.

I tried kb3 again this morning. I clicked the settings menu and selected the configure option. There were no entries for the reader and writer.

I clicked add devices, and entered /dev/scd0

kb3 returned this error

'could not find an additional device at /dev/scd0'

I then tried these

/dev/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom
/mnt/auto/cdrom

I got the same errors as above.

the fstab line for my burner is

fstab /dev/scd0 /mnt/auto/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

**blahblahblah** · 09-26-2003, 02:26 AM

i also cannot burn in knoppix.
i have a DVD/CD-RW combo drive and k3b recognizes this as my reader not my burner. and when i try to click add devices and choose it as my writer it returns the same error 5t1nkbu77 gets. i have been stuck on this for a while.
the drive is scsi

**5t1nkbu77** · 09-26-2003, 10:09 PM

I'd like to put this thread to rest by saying that k3b seems to be having problems with SCSI CDRW drives.

I backed up my mp3s by creating .iso's with mkisofs and used cdrecord to burn them with no problems.

Thanks again to Klaus and everyone who helped me. Knoppix is a great thing.

JPMcW

**blahblahblah** · 10-01-2003, 09:30 PM

if i cant burn with k3b is there anything else that will work.
something with a GUI, im not down with typing endlessly in order to burn a cd in linux.

**Stephen** · 10-01-2003, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by blahblahblah

if i cant burn with k3b is there anything else that will work.
something with a GUI, im not down with typing endlessly in order to burn a cd in linux.

Xcdroast, gcombust and most likely many more try http://packages.debian.org.