On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:04:24PM +0000, Joel Soete wrote: Hi all and happy GNU/year, > > > >Normally when 'cdrecord -scanbus' is run it gives the id of the cdrw. > >However mine gives [...] > >whereas xcdroast says the cd is on 0,0,0 in its setup. When I try 0,0,0 > >with cdrecord I get > >' cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot > >open SCSI driver.' > > > >When I lsmod I get > >'lsmod > >Module Size Used by Not tainted > >'. Does this mean the scsi module needs installing? How do I go about > May I ask you which kernel are you running (2.4...., 2.6....)? > Is it possible that your cdrw is not a scsi device? if not check you have the module insmod'ed, otherwise if so, try: ste@ns:[~]$ cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus [...] scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'DVD-R UJ-816 ' 'DXJ3' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * [...] That is because the kernel team, from 2.6 on, preferred to switch from ide-scsi modules to the (ATAPI) non-scsi-emulated, referring to ``ide_cd'' module. Try again with the suggested option, once you checked the ide_cd module to be inserted. Give a feed back, please. Regards SteX -- GPG key = D52DF829 -- Stex -- <stefano.melchior@openlabs.it> Keyserver: http://keyserver.kjsl.com - http://www.openlabs.it/~stex Registered user #324592 on the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
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