[svlug] CD writer not working

[Vince Duperron]

Sorry this is so late, the message ended up in mail hell for a bit.


> Hello;
> 
> Thanks to all for the advice.  
> 
> I think the root of the problem was that no device was available in 
> /dev/.  I checked for /dev/scd* /dev/sg* and /dev/hd* no luck.
> I looked through the scripts that come with xcdroast and found
> /usr/doc/xcdroast-0.96e/MAKEDEVICES.sh.  In this file is 
> the major and minor numbers needed to create the /dev/sg* and 
> /dev/sr[0-1] devices.  After creating the necessary files in 
> /dev the cdrecord software worked just fine.
> 
> Thanks for the pointers
> 
> Vince
> 
> PS.  Of couse /dev/MAKEDEV would have been an obvious place
> to look, for some reason it wasn't included in this distribution.
> 
> > 
> > At Fri, 21 Sep 2001 it looks like Jonathan Cobb composed:
> > 
> > jonath->How about output from "lsmod" ?  Make sure the ide-scsi module is
> > jonath->loaded.  If it is not, do:
> > jonath->$ insmod ide-scsi
> > jonath->and then do:
> > jonath->$ cdrecord -scanbus
> > jonath->
> > jonath->You should see your CD writer in the output.  If not, check the
> > jonath->CD-Writing HOWTO for more info:
> > jonath->
> > jonath->http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
> > jonath->
> > jonath->   - jonathan.
> > 
> > 
> > Here is a pretty cool walk through I use with customers. It's 16
> > animated frames that walk you through some of the setup gotcha's.
> > 
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/
> > 
> > --
> > Bill Schoolcraft
> > http://ForwardSlashUnix.com
> >   rm -rf /bin/laden
> > "UNIX, A Way of Life."
> > 
> > 
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