Where is my CD-R?

[Jeff Vian]

Paulus Tamba wrote:

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> Don Levey wrote:
> | OK, I know it's probably a silly question, but here goes:
> | How can I determine which device is my CD burner?
> | I'm trying to use k3b, gnometoaster, or xcdroast.  None of them seem to
> | recognise that I've got a burner in the machine.  I'm sure there's a
> | simple command to find this, but I don't know what it is.
> |
> | TIA,
> |  -Don
> |

If you are on FC1 or one of the earlier RH distros, the cd burner should 
be running under the ide-scsi module.

use lsmod to see if ide-scsi is loaded.

If it is, see what it is called.  " dmesg | grep sd " (it should be sd0 
or sd1 depending on whether you have one or more devices running under 
ide-scsi, or if you are running other scsi devices as well).
Or use dmesg and view the output or view /var/log/message to see what 
the system identified it as.

Then xcdroast should see it automatically, or you can use "cdrecord 
-scanbus" to identify the exact device for use.

If the module ide-scsi is not loaded then the burners won't see it.