Burning iso to DVD - find device

Question

I am trying to burn an iso-file to a DVD but I am new to this and cannot fully accomplish it.

I have the following iso:

myiso/myfirst.iso

and then I look up the device to burn to:

inxi -d

the followinig information is produced:

Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (3.7% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB 
       Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A dev-links: cdrom
       Features: speed: 48x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,c

So which dev-name should I use? is it sda? i tried to burn with the following command:

 wodim -eject -tao speed=2 dev=/dev/sda -v -data myfirst.iso

as a first step, but I get the following error:

 TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM

scsidev: '/dev/sda' devname: '/dev/sda' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2

Error trying to open /dev/sda exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/sda exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/sda exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/sda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...   retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/sda exclusively (Device or resource busy)... giving up.
wodim: Device or resource busy. 
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

I have even tried with:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw=myfirst.iso

which produces:

:-( "/dev/dvdrw=myfirst.iso": unexpected errno:No such file or directory

So - What am I doing wrong here?

@garethTheRed - then I get the following error: _WARNING: /dev/sr0 seems to be mounted! wodim: Device or resource busy. Cannot open SCSI driver!_ — java, Sep 17 '15 at 19:02
What distro are you using? Does running `mount` show the device as mounted anywhere? If so, try un-mounting it with `sudo umount /dev/sr0`. — garethTheRed, Sep 17 '15 at 19:05
@garethTheRed using ubuntu. Thanks, now somethings happends. How do I mount it again? _Now it cannot find sr0_ — java, Sep 17 '15 at 19:16
`brasero` is installed by default on Ubuntu. It's a nice GUI for burning optical media. Give it a try. — garethTheRed, Sep 17 '15 at 19:22
The brasero that is delivered by Ubuntu is not usable as it does not use cdrtools. — schily, Sep 17 '15 at 20:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '16 at 17:42

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I have had excellent results using Brasero, which comes installed on Ubuntu and Mint. However, I respect you for trying to learn how to accomplish this using the command line.

answered Feb 21 '16 at 17:42

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '18 at 09:06

So which dev-name should I use? is it sda?

No. inxi reports your hard drive as /dev/sda, and the optical drive as /dev/sr0 (also symlinked to /dev/cdrom):

Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (3.7% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB 
       Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A dev-links: cdrom
       Features: speed: 48x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,c

That's because inxi -d also includes inxi -D, which reports hard drives. Either way, the correct wodim dev parameter is therefore /dev/sr0 and the wodim command should be

wodim dev=/dev/sr0 <other options> path/to/your.iso

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '15 at 20:28

Do not use wodim, as it is a dead and buggy fork made from a cdrecord from May 2004. Wodim also in general cannot write DVDs because there is no working DVD driver inside.

With a recent cdrecord, you no not need to specify a device at all in case that you just have one drive in you system. BTW: the original cdrtools sources have got many new features since May 2004 and aproximately give you twice as many fatures as you get with that wodim.

The message you posted is showing one of 100 well documented bugs in wodim. You will not run into that problem when using the original cdrecord.

Fortunately all decent Linux distros deliver a decent cdrtools based installation. If you are using one of the user-unfriendly Linux distros, you need to compile it yourself from sources.

The source is here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtools/files/

If you use an unmodified brasero, it is integrated. The problem is the brasero variant Created by Debian and used by Debian followers. BTW: there is a private person who creates cdrtools binary install packages for Ubuntu - maybe he knows what do do here. — schily, Sep 17 '15 at 20:52
Found the name: Search for the packages from Brandon Snider for Ubuntu. — schily, Sep 17 '15 at 22:05

Burning iso to DVD - find device

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