On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:24:43PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but > > > > > > wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access > > > /dev/hda and then /dev/hdb > > > > > > My system is lenny with a linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 kernel. > > > > > > What is wrong and how can I fix it. > > > > I don't know, but it might help for you to provide the actual console > > commands and output. Also, describe your system's hardware, and see if it > > works in other Linux distros or other OS'es. > > > Those are the actual console commands given above. > > I have found that wodim --devices finds the two ide drives, a cdrom drive > and a cdrw drive, but I normally burned cd's with a sony usb cdrw drive. > After last night's adventures the usb drive appears to be dead. wodim > --scanbus found it at 0,0,0 but as stated above went crazy trying to > write to it. I then made the mistake of telling wodim to write to > /dev/sg0, the location reported when the usb drive was connected. wodim > tried and failed. After this the usb device is no longer recognized > when it is connected. My fault. I'll miss the usb drive as it was an > external drive I could move to another system. If wodim can work with > an external usb drive I will replace it. > > Correction: I rebooted and the usb cdrw drive is alive and well.
wodim --scanbus still reports it as device 0,0,0 but wodim --devices finds it as dev='/dev/scd0' and the command wodim -v dev='dev/scd0' data.iso works perfectly. Maybe everybody else knew to use the output of wodim --devices rather than wodim --scanbus but old habits die hard. > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
