[svlug] CD-R/W Problem

[I. Craig Nichols]

On Wed April 2 2003 11:35 pm, William R Ward wrote:
> Scott Thompson writes:
[snippo]
> >So, any ideas?  Because I'm out of 'em.  Two days ago I could write CDs.
> >  Today I can't.
>
> That smells like a problem I had when I was first trying to get my CD
> writer working.  Turned out I hadn't installed the kernel modules for
> SCSI support.  I had the "sg" and "ide-scsi" modules, but not the core
> scsi stuff.  Maybe that's it?  Play with modprobe and lsmod and those
> things to see what modules you have/need.

Another good cd-rw debugging tool: 

        cdrecord --scanbus

- Ix