Re: Need help

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:41:21PM -0800, Shim, JaiX K wrote:
> > I tried "cdrecord -scanbus". But I got the following error message.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > "cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver."
>
> Sounds like you run Linux 2.6.
>
> If you want any help, you're going to have to tell us a lot more detail --
> which version of cdrecord, which operating system, etc.  (Although if
> your platform is Linux 2.6, all the help you'll get is "don't try to run
> cdrecord -scanbus on Linux 2.6", or possibly "we've attempted a workaround
> for Linux 2.6 in cdrecord version xx.yy.zz, and you can try that".)

This is wrong!

cdrecord works without real problems on Linux-2.6 if you install it correctly
suid root.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/problems.html

Some old versions do not but this is caused by non-cooperative acting
from the Linux Kernel maintainers: they did introduce a severe incompatible 
interface change after cdrtools had been put into a code freeze state 
for releasing.

Jörg

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