Good news is I can copy cd's at the command line. I will tackle k3b in the morning. Thanks to Stephen and tech2k and others on irc #knoppix
Ran discover after apt-get and rebooted. Tried k3b and:
System
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K3b Version: 0.9
KDE Version: 3.1.4
QT Version: 3.2.1
cdrdao
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ERROR: Expecting only one toc-file.
Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[email protected]>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.
Usage: /usr/bin/cdrdao read-cd [options] toc-file
options:
--device <x,y,z> - sets SCSI device of CD-ROM reader
--driver <id> - force usage of specified driver for source device
--datafile <filename> - name of data file placed in toc-file
--session # - select session
--fast-toc - do not extract pre-gaps and index marks
--read-raw - read raw data sectors (including L-EC data)
--read-subchan <mode> - defines sub-channel reading mode
<mode> = rw | rw_raw
--tao-source - indicate that source CD was written in TAO mode
--tao-source-adjust # - # of link blocks for TAO source CDs (def. 2)
--paranoia-mode # - DAE paranoia mode (0..3)
--with-cddb - retrieve CDDB CD-TEXT data while copying
--cddb-servers <list> - sets space separated list of CDDB servers
--cddb-timeout # - timeout in seconds for CDDB server communication
--cddb-directory <path> - path to local CDDB directory where fetched
CDDB records will be stored
--force - force execution of operation
-v # - sets verbose level
cdrdao comand:
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/usr/bin/cdrdao read-cd --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --paranoia-mode 3 auto -n -v 2 --eject --remote 23 --datafile /tmp/kde-caro/k3b_0.img /tmp/kde-caro/k3b_0.toc
Good news is I can copy cd's at the command line. I will tackle k3b in the morning. Thanks to Stephen and tech2k and others on irc #knoppix
had the same problems, see my post on the general side. the answer came in the most unusual way- while trying to check on xine. do a xine-check at the cmd line the answers will show the linkage of the cdrom, though not the floppy but it might give u a clue. good luck.

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