Comment 12 for bug 1203559

Hey everybody,

Research took me to 2 promising end - 1 of which was you guys over here and the other one the probably well known README.ATAPI stuff. after shortly reading into README.ATAPI i was quite shure that it could not handle my actual problem simply due to its release date and the fact, that in newer articles about cdrkit and wodim it didnt get mentioned anymore (also my brasero was never out of order by any means - i was always able to use that prog to its full functionality, just when i started to get inetrested in burning via terminal i even realized sth is probably not 100% in place). I still read through most of it, just for the sake of knowledge.(without learning that much sadly i am pretty new to the world of linux). Since i was anyway about to format and resetup my notebook, i wanted to give 1 thing a shot.

i created a softlink /etc/cdrw -> /etc/sr0 (my actual disk drive) after realizing that /etc/cdrom exactly such a link.
in /etc/wodim.conf i changed the value of CDR_DEVICE from cdrom to cdrw and i set cdrw=/dev/sr0.
That worked out perfectly wodim finally did his duties.

i am very sorry in case i am not telling anybody anything usefull, i was not sure whether to post at all, since my brasero and file manager never occured to have a problem, also the topic is not the latest. My wodim situation however was 100% identical to what you explained.