cdrecord doesn't like me anymore

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Jul 6 11:32:38 UTC 2007


Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I can't even get cdrecord -scanbus to work:
> [root at localhost sata]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�g
> 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
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this
> version.
> cdrecord: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character. Cannot open
> SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
>
> I'm running FC6.
> I did a yum update yesterday.
> I don't burn cds often, so I don't know that
> that was the update that caused the problem.
> I'm sure it didn't do my printing any good.
>
>   
Hi Mike, I tried on F7 and it worked just fine :-)

This is the first time since FC4 that it worked. I wonder if we can get 
back to just using cdrecord again. The manual way to do things makes 
more sense.

Karl




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