Re: ATAPI CD-writer

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting cr <cr@orcon.net.nz>:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:08, Daniel Teichert wrote:
> > And I heard Pigeon exclaim:
> > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:23:25PM +1200, cr wrote:
> > > > I believe I also probably need sg and sr_mod.   Can they also be loaded
> > > > via modprobe?   And - this is probably a stupid question but, where
> > > > would I find these modules - sg, sr_mod and  ide-scsi?   insmod  can't
> > > > find them -
> >
> > I apologize since this is probably either redundant, wrong or
> > both--I've deleted the rest of the thread. I just discovered
> > that I didn't actually need the ide-scsi stuff to do cd burning;
> > on my unstable box:
> >
> > cdrecord -v ATAPI: -scanbus
> >
> > ...gives me a device list with my ATAPI cd writer in it, and:
> >
> 
> Hmm, I just get: 
> 
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for 'ATAPI:'.
> 

Try

cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI: -scanbus

Depending on your versions, this may work better.

HTH,
  Jeffrey