ide/scsi and cdrecord

[alan]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:

> I am having a problem using cdrecord to work with my ide cdrw. There has
> been plenty of google-able material like appending hdc=ide-scsi in
> grub.conf.

ide-scsi is pretty broken at this point.

Try removing ide-scsi and using:

cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc speed=12 fc2-disc1.iso

(Assuming your cd-rom drive is on /dev/hdc.)

BTW, k3b is a highly recommended front-end for cd and dvd burning. It 
handles this stuff automatically.

> 
> So far I have had no luck running cdrecord and while I am looking I was
> hoping someone here may have the answer.
> 
> # cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
> Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
> <warly at mandrakesoft.com>.
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this
> version.
> scsidev: 'ATA'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily -
> Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c1.80 04/03/08 Copyright
> 1997 J. Schilling').
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW  CRX216E  ' 'PD01' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,1,0   101) *
>         1,2,0   102) *
>         1,3,0   103) *
>         1,4,0   104) *
>         1,5,0   105) *
>         1,6,0   106) *
>         1,7,0   107) *
> 
> 
> So I would think issuing this would work but it obviously does not (tried as
> root)
> 
> # cdrecord -v dev=1,0,0 speed=12 fc2-disc1.iso 
> cdrecord: No write mode specified.
> cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
> cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent
> defaults.
> cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
> Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
> <warly at mandrakesoft.com>.
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this
> version.
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: '1,0,0'
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open
> SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
> 
> thanks,
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
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