try the atapi drivers, scsi emulation is no longer required, just prefered to probe the avaliabe atapi devices: cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus
and to specify a device: cdrecord -dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 -scanbus (replace the 1,0,0 with whatever it scans yer cdrw as) On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 09:18, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello, > > When I run as root > > cdrecord -scanbus > > I get the following error message. > > ---- > Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. 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'. > ---- > > I've built scsi-cdrom support and scsi emulation into the kernel > (gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r1) and don't know what else I could do. This > was working with a previous gentoo install but it isn't anymore. > > A dmesg|grep hdd gives > > ---- > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 hdd=ide-scsi vga=0x31A > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hdd: _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > ---- > > I'd very much like to burn some cds and as such any help would be much > appreciated. > > Many thanks. > Dhruba Bandopadhyay. -- Nicholas Hockey (Tilt) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Administrator Encrypted E-Mail is preferred.. -------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG KeyID 4EDE2B84 Key fingerprint = B916 6032 BE3D 490D 2A08 F1BC 948A A4C1 4EDE 2B84 HKP: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4EDE2B84 LDAP: gpg --keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com --recv-keys 4EDE2B84 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
