hmm, mike's answer should go to that newbie maintenance faq that was going around here for a while.
great job mike! -> who watches the watchmen? Key fingerprint - E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883 ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 3:57 AM Subject: Re: cdrecord doesn't recognize my cd (re-)writer > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:40:04 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I read somewhere about somebody's problems with xcdroast. My problem is even > > simpler (stupider?) I can't get cdrecord to work under debian. > > > > Here is some of the info I have been able to gather about my current setup. > > > > debian:/dev# lsmod > > Module Size Used by > > serial 19564 0 (autoclean) > > es1371 25344 0 > > sound 57592 0 (unused) > > soundlow 416 0 [sound] > > soundcore 2628 7 [es1371 sound] > > parport_pc 7236 0 (autoclean) > > parport_probe 3332 0 > > parport 7280 0 [parport_pc parport_probe] > > sg 15320 0 (unused) > > ide-scsi 7080 0 > > vfat 9008 0 (unused) > > unix 10212 85 (autoclean) > > > > debian:/dev# cdrecord -scanbus > > Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling > > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. > > > > debian:/dev# ls /dev/sg* > > /dev/sg0 /dev/sg11 /dev/sg14 /dev/sg2 /dev/sg5 /dev/sg8 > > /dev/sg1 /dev/sg12 /dev/sg15 /dev/sg3 /dev/sg6 /dev/sg9 > > /dev/sg10 /dev/sg13 /dev/sg16 /dev/sg4 /dev/sg7 > > > > My kernel version is the potato default kernel 2.2.17. My CD-RW is an > > ironicially named Best CD Writer. It works under Linux-Mandrake. > > > > I believe I have loaded all the necessary modules (sg + ide-scsi) and have the > > proper devices in /dev. Just to be sure I did a MAKEDEV (something the > > installation of cdrecord is supposed to do anyways), deleting /potato default kerneldev/sg* and > > recreating them. So why the message "cdrecord: No such file or directory. > > Cannot open SCSI driver"? > > > > What have I forgotten/failed to do? This is the final piece of the puzzle in my > > making my Debian installation as usable as my Linux-Mandrake (I now have sound > > and ppp under Debian. Wow!) > > > > Well i had a similar problem with my potato default kernel 2.2.17 > which has IDECD driver compiled into the kernel and IDESCSI > loaded as a module. The IDESCSI driver can only access the > CDRW if the IDECD driver doesn't grab it first (the IDECD driver should be > compiled as a module or not at all if using IDESCSI). > So by adding to lilo.conf the line: append="hd?=ide-scsi" > the device file representing CDRW (hd?) is passed to the ide-scsi > driver in the kernel before the ide-cd driver can grab it. > This means that your bootup messages will list the drives > detected by the ide-scsi emulation. If you dont get these messages then it > hasn't worked. > Once you get these messages then run# cdrecord -scanbus > and you should get a listing with your CDRW dev at e.g. 0,0,0. > Then use that in cdrecord dev=0,0,0 ..... and all goes well. > This is a long-winded explanation because it took me a long > time to make sense out of this. In any case it worked. YMMV. > -- > > gEEk||dOOd^Deb+iaN&&XFce$aaZZ goes<Pronto>(-_-) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
