Hi Thank you, Thomas, for that. I have now tried the following commands, as root: ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/scd0 ln -s /dev/sg1 /dev/scd1 ln -s /dev/sg2 /dev/scd2 ln -s /dev/sg3 /dev/scd3 .
Then as normal user: wodim --devices . This produced the result: " wodim: Overview of accessible drives (2 found) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 dev='/dev/scd1' rwrw-- : 'hp' 'DVD-RAM GHD0N' 1 dev='/dev/scd2' rwrw-- : 'HUAWEI' 'Mass Storage' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- " So this seems to work. I thank Thomas Schmitt very much for his assistance. However I used sg? not sr? . with best regards from Richard Betham On Thursday 04 Aug 2016 08:39:00 you wrote: > Hi, > > the problem is in the demise of the /dev/scd* links. > Once declared the "better" CD device addresses they now have been > abandoned. But wodim wants to see these addresses for enumerating > devices. > > Workarounds: > > Create for each /dev/srN a corresponding softlink /dev/scdN. > > Or use > cdrskin --devices > to list the /dev/sr* device files. (cdrskin as burn program has the > advantage to properly handle DVD and BD media, but it does not write > exotic CD formats like -raw or -xa1.) > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas
