Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer

["Rino Mardo" <helixfish@gmx.net>]

hmm, mike's answer should go to that newbie maintenance faq that was going
around here for a while.

great job mike!


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----- Original Message -----
From: "mike" <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>
To: <csj@mindgate.net>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer


>
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:40:04 +0800, csj@mindgate.net said:
>
> > I read somewhere about somebody's problems with xcdroast. My problem is
even
> >  simpler (stupider?) I can't get cdrecord to work under debian.
> >
> >  Here is some of the info I have been able to gather about my current
setup.
> >
> >  debian:/dev# lsmod
> >  Module                  Size  Used by
> >  serial                 19564   0  (autoclean)
> >  es1371                 25344   0
> >  sound                  57592   0  (unused)
> >  soundlow                 416   0  [sound]
> >  soundcore               2628   7  [es1371 sound]
> >  parport_pc              7236   0  (autoclean)
> >  parport_probe           3332   0
> >  parport                 7280   0  [parport_pc parport_probe]
> >  sg                     15320   0  (unused)
> >  ide-scsi                7080   0
> >  vfat                    9008   0  (unused)
> >  unix                   10212  85  (autoclean)
> >
> >  debian:/dev# cdrecord -scanbus
> >  Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
> >  cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> >  cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are root.
> >
> >  debian:/dev# ls /dev/sg*
> >  /dev/sg0   /dev/sg11  /dev/sg14  /dev/sg2  /dev/sg5  /dev/sg8
> >  /dev/sg1   /dev/sg12  /dev/sg15  /dev/sg3  /dev/sg6  /dev/sg9
> >  /dev/sg10  /dev/sg13  /dev/sg16  /dev/sg4  /dev/sg7
> >
> >  My kernel version is the potato default kernel 2.2.17. My CD-RW is an
> >  ironicially named Best CD Writer. It works under Linux-Mandrake.
> >
> >  I believe I have loaded all the necessary modules (sg + ide-scsi) and
have the
> >  proper devices in /dev. Just to be sure I did a MAKEDEV (something the
> >  installation of cdrecord is supposed to do anyways), deleting /potato
default kerneldev/sg* and
> >  recreating them. So why the message "cdrecord: No such file or
directory.
> >  Cannot open SCSI driver"?
> >
> >  What have I forgotten/failed to do? This is the final piece of the
puzzle in my
> >  making my Debian installation as usable as my Linux-Mandrake (I now
have sound
> >  and ppp under Debian. Wow!)
>
> >
>     Well i had a similar problem with my potato default kernel 2.2.17
> which has IDECD driver compiled into the kernel and IDESCSI
> loaded as a module. The IDESCSI driver can only access the
> CDRW if the IDECD driver doesn't grab it first (the IDECD driver should be
> compiled as a module or not at all if using IDESCSI).
> So by adding to lilo.conf the line: append="hd?=ide-scsi"
> the device file representing CDRW (hd?) is passed to the ide-scsi
> driver in the kernel before the ide-cd driver can grab it.
> This means that your bootup messages will list the drives
> detected  by the ide-scsi emulation. If you dont get these messages then
it
> hasn't worked.
> Once you get these messages then run# cdrecord -scanbus
> and you should get a listing with your CDRW  dev at e.g. 0,0,0.
> Then use that in cdrecord  dev=0,0,0 ..... and all goes well.
> This is a long-winded explanation because it took me a long
> time to make sense out of this. In any case it worked. YMMV.
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