Re: CD burner not working with kernel 2.6

[Anthony Roberts <anthony-spamtrap@shaw.ca>]

Wayne Topa wrote:

> I hardly ever use that but when he ignored the error prompt
> "For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'" I got kind of fed up.
>
> I'm not embarassed if it helped him find his problem.
>  
To be fair, I did ignore the error prompt and I deserved a "RTFM". I 
don't think
you were being unreasonable. I think you were trying to eliminate the 
obvious
misconfiguration errors, which is a reasonable strategy for a list like 
this. This is
the first time I've seen Linux fail to use a CD drive as well.

In my deffense, I was frustrated because the kernel was telling me 
"device not
supported, ignored". I was positive cdrecord wouldn't be producing any
useful diagnostics because no device files existed for the CD drive, 
period. It's
not like cdrecord can find a device that 'ls /dev' cannot, no matter 
what arguments
you give it. As a result, I was pretty rushed in the commands I typed 
for posting
here.

It turns out I was right, but I should have done better with my posts. I 
apologize
for that.