[PLUG] CDRW device detection problem

AthlonRob athlonrob at axpr.net
Sun Feb 29 15:51:02 UTC 2004


On Sunday 29 February 2004 15:21, Vincent Yau wrote:

> However, when I ran 'cdrecord -scanbus', I got this error:
>
> [root at localhost root]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jrg Schilling
> cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/pg1'. 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'.
> [root at localhost root]#
>
> XCDRoast reported that my drive is ATAPI:0,1,0.

Are you using kernel 2.6.x?  If so, you need to tell cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc (if
it's hdc) or dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 as XCDRoast stated.  The latter is preferred by
cdrecord.

If you're using 2.4.x with ide-scsi emulation for CD-RW access, I really don't
know what is up, sorry.

Rob




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