[olug] Finding the CDR device

Adam Lassek hayai2 at cox.net
Wed Apr 7 01:21:16 UTC 2004


It may very well be a Gentoo patch, but I'm running a 2.4 kernel

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 22:44, Brandon Lederer wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2004 10:23 pm, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > There's a much easier way to do this. You're using cdrecord 2.00.3,
> > which should be new enough. I'm using 2.01_alpha27 but I believe 1.11a
> > works. Replace the dev=6,0 line with dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdd. No scsi
> > emulation necessary.
> >
> ABOVE:
> only works in 2.6 kernels........... and last I checked, these were 
> Gentoo-patched CDRecords, but I could be wrong on that one.  Dont quote me.
> > I'm kind of ashamed of linux that it took us this long to support atapi
> > burning natively.
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 13:47, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> > > If you are using a 2.4 kernel you will need to have ide-scsi
> > > setup in your kernel and pass the option hdd=ide-scsi  to the kernel at
> > > boot time.
> > >
> > > for 2.6 you should pass hdd=ide-cd and use the atapi device, but if you
> > > dont have a new enough version of cdrecord, you will have to use the scsi
> > > emulation(ide-scsi) with 2.6 also.
> > >
> > > with ide-scsi installed, you should see the correct device when you do a
> > > 'scanbus'
> > >
> > > > I've installed a IDE CD-RW drive on a lab box.  The device is /dev/hdd.
> > > > I'd
> > > > like to test writing by writing an iso of Damnsmall Linux.  The man
> > > > pages for
> > > > cdrecord suggest using "dev=6,0" as the typical writing device So...
> > > >
> > > > root at jukebox:~/shares/damnsmall# cdrecord -V -v speed=12 -data dev=0,6
> > > > damnsmall-0.6.1.iso
> > > > Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
> > > > Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> > > > scsidev: '0,6'
> > > > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 6
> > > > cdrecord: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/pg0'. 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'.
> > > >
> > > > Well! That's ugly.  Let's try
> > > >
> > > > root at jukebox:~/shares/damnsmall# cdrecord -scanbus
> > > > Cdrecord 2.00.3 (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'.
> > > >
> > > > Ooooooo.  That's Bad.
> > > >
> > > > What should I try next?
> > > >
> > > > Dave Thacker
> > > > -----------------
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> > > >
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