I assume you are still on a series 2.4 kernel with that distro? are you sure you are running the ide-scsi driver? you need to boot your kernel with the option hdb=ide-scsi
if you are , then what user are you when running cdrecord -scanbus? if you get the same result as root, then can you please tell us what device you mount when you mount a cd in the cdrw drive? On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:14:58 +1200 Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get cdrecord working without any success. I have trolled > through the Rute manual, and implemented procedures from the cd-writing > howto, then rebooted. > > The cdrw is on hdb. It works in Windows. it has its uses as a hardware tester ;-) > > lsmod reports loop, sr_mod, sg, & scsi_mod all present. I can > mnt/read/umnt a cd. > > The following 2 lines appear in /var/log/messages > May 24 14:37:32 localhost kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > May 24 14:37:33 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation > for IDE ATAPI devices > > I am still running Mandrake8.2 on a P166 with 64m. I use icewm. > > I have run the commands from the howto, section 2 Quickstart. The > modules.config has been altered as per Rute section 42.6.11 > > cdrecord -scanbus reports the following errors: > no such file or directory > cannot open '/dev/pg*' > Cannot open SCSI driver > > I am now at a dead end. Any suggestions please? > > TIA > > Barry -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
