[RESOLVED] Re: Can't ?find device with cdrecord on Etch

[Bernard Fay <bfay@deepcosmos.ca>]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 17:08 +0300, Vitaliy Ischenko wrote:
> В Сбт, 04/02/2006 в 09:31 +0200, Simo Kauppi пишет:
> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:45:47PM -0500, Chinook wrote:
> > > Bernard Fay wrote:
> > > >Hello group,
> > > >
> > > >I seems to have a problem to identify my devices (a DVD writer and a CD
> > > >writer) when using cdrecord -scanbus.
> > > >
> > > >Some help or hints would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >Bernard
> > > >  
> > > Don't know that this will be much help, but where I outlined my Mondo 
> > > use in the thread "mondo 1.67" you'll note how I referred to my DVD unit as:
> > > 
> > > cdrecord-wrapper.sh -v -dao dev=/dev/hdd:1,2,0 fs=16m speed=1 
> > > /home/mondo/images/<each iso in turn>
> > > 
> > > I don't remember exactly how I came up with the ":1,2,0" bit at the 
> > > moment and "she who must be obeyed" is busy playing cards on the P4 box 
> > > right now, so maybe someone can fill that in.
> > > 
> > > Lee C
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I found the target numbers by issuing
> > $ sudo cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus
> > 
> 
> With dev=ATA there could be a problems with IDE HDD's
> if you know your ATAPI cdrom device name (i.e. /dev/hdc) try 
> $ sudo cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -scanbus
> 
> 
> > Then I just use
> > $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 myimage.iso
> > 
> 
> just put a line in /etc/default/cdrecord
> 
> echo "cdrom= ATA:1,0,0 -1 -1 "burnfree" >> /etc/default/cdrecord
> cdrom -- any unique name for your device (You can set it a default
> device via CDR_DEVICE variable in /etc/default/cdrecord)
> then device (ATA:1,0,0)
> -1 -1 means default settings for speed and fifosize
> "burnfree" -- driver options -- you can leave it empty if you wish :)
> 
> > Simo


Thanks people, I got it working. It was as simple as shown in those
email.  The dev=ATA trick fixed my problem.

Thanks again
Bernard