CD-writing with IDE CD-RW
I'm trying to get my HP8100i CD-RW to function in
Linux (it works okay in Windows), and I'm having
problems with IDE-SCSI emulation.
I've installed the SCSI emulation, SCSI support,
SCSI generic support and SCSI CD-ROM support
modules into my 2.2.9 kernel. lsmod gives:
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 40548 0 (autoclean)
slhc 4328 0 (autoclean) (unused)
bsd_comp 3632 0 (autoclean)
ide-floppy 8364 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2020 3 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 3 (autoclean)
sg 10680 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 49256 1 [sg]
slip 7176 0 (unused)
ppp 19936 0 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp]
parport_pc 5556 1 (autoclean)
lp 5148 0 (unused)
parport 7092 1 [parport_pc lp]
umsdos 24248 0 (unused)
msdos 6620 0 [umsdos]
vfat 11292 3
fat 25632 3 [umsdos msdos vfat]
According to the CD-Writing HOWTO I've done everything
I should have (I think) but cdrecord -scanbus replies:
[root%letdown /home/alisdair] # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.8a20 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
So I tried:
[root%letdown /home/alisdair] # cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd cdimage.iso
Cdrecord release 1.8a20 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
devname: '/dev/hdd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
cdrecord: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open SCSI driver.
Has anyone any idea what I've done wrong?
Thanks in advance,
--
alisdair mcdiarmid
[everything is plastic and we're all going to die]
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