Hi there

(Please don't get put off by the length of the message.)

I'm using Slackware 10.2 with KDE 3.4. I can mount and read CDs using mount /mnt/cdrom

But I'm unable to figure out the working of cdrecord.( I want to use cdrecord for recording data CDs)

I get the following message when I try cdrecord -scanbus in the terminal.

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. can't open '/dev/pg*'. Can't open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'

Can sb help what does it mean

(Relevant part of dmesg of my Linux PC is)

Linux version 2.4.31 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.5) #6 Sun Jun 5 19:04:47 PDT 2005

hdc: ASUS CRW-4832AS, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices

paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
NTFS: Unicode name contains a character that cannot be converted to chosen character set. Remount with utf8 encoding and this should work.
NTFS: Unicode name contains a character that cannot be converted to chosen character set. Remount with utf8 encoding and this should work.


Please put me in the right direction

use something like this:
cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc ...the other options...
If you don't have scsi-emulation, the scsi-like device names will not work.