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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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