Like this:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi

So what is the error?

I added the line to etc/grub.conf

Below is the message I get from cdrecord

Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
cdrecord: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/pg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you

You need to reboot the computer for the grub changes to take effect.

Then try the command: cdrecord --scanbus

Your CDRW drive should be displayed and hopefully you will be able to burn a CD.

No scsi emulation in that snippet (prefer to see full unedited output though) if it was using scsi emulation it would say "attached ide-scsi driver" - append the kernel parameter that Mike gave and repost your dmesg to see whether scsi emulation is now enabled for your burner - if it is, the device name will have changed, probably to /dev/sr0 - x cdroast/cdrecord will need to recognise this new device name and for normal cdrom use change the device name in the relevant entry in /etc/fstab - something similar to

/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,ro,noauto 0 0

I used Mike's suggestion and was able to see the device using cdrecord -scanbus. However, I am no longer able to run x cdroast. (There is no error, the program does not load). I also have Gnome toaster but am unable to get it working. Could be operator ignorance problem.

I'm away from the system. Will post dmesg when I return

you assume that he is using grub with Red Hat 9.0, it is probably lilo, and he needs to edit lilo.conf

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="root=LABEL=/" "hdd=ide-scsi"

RedHat 9.0 uses GRUB by default.

I have lilo.conf.anaconda file

Here is my dmesg output (see multiple posts for entire output)

entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1462.89 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000040
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Error: only one processor found.
WARNING: No sibling found for CPU 0.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 8 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 8 ... ok.
Setting 10 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 10 ... ok.
Setting 9 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 9 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 8-0, 8-13, 10-9, 10-10, 10-11, 10-12, 10-13, 10-14, 10-15, 10-16, 10-17, 10-18, 10-19, 10-20, 10-21, 10-22, 10-23, 9-4, 9-5, 9-6, 9-7, 9-8, 9-9, 9-10, 9-11, 9-12, 9-13, 9-14, 9-15, 9-16, 9-17, 9-18, 9-19, 9-20, 9-21, 9-22, 9-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
number of MP IRQ sources: 46.
number of IO-APIC #8 registers: 24.
number of IO-APIC #10 registers: 24.
number of IO-APIC #9 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................

IO APIC #8......
.... register #00: 08000000
....... : physical APIC id: 08
.... register #01: 00178020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0f 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
10 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1
11 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
12 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
13 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
14 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
15 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
16 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
17 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9

dmesg post #2

IO APIC #10......
.... register #00: 0A000000
....... : physical APIC id: 0A
.... register #01: 00178020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
.... register #02: 0A000000
....... : arbitration: 0A
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E1
01 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E9
02 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 32
03 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 3A
04 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 42
05 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 4A
06 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 52
07 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 5A
08 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 62
09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0f 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

IO APIC #9......
.... register #00: 09000000
....... : physical APIC id: 09
.... register #01: 00178020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
.... register #02: 09000000
....... : arbitration: 09
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 6A
01 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 72
02 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 7A
03 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 82
04 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
06 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
07 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
08 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0f 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ19 -> 0:19
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ21 -> 0:21
IRQ22 -> 0:22
IRQ23 -> 0:23
IRQ24 -> 1:0
IRQ25 -> 1:1
IRQ26 -> 1:2
IRQ27 -> 1:3
IRQ28 -> 1:4
IRQ29 -> 1:5
IRQ30 -> 1:6
IRQ31 -> 1:7
IRQ32 -> 1:8
IRQ48 -> 2:0
IRQ49 -> 2:1
IRQ50 -> 2:2
IRQ51 -> 2:3
.................................... done.

dmesg post #3

Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2392.3621 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 132.9089 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1329089, slice: 664544
CPU0<T0:1329088,T1:664544,D:0,S:664544,C:1329089>
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
smp_num_cpus: 1.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbdd5, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P0) -> 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P1) -> 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P2) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P3) -> 23
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P0) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B3,I14,P0) -> 24
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B5,I12,P0) -> 20
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B5,I14,P0) -> 22
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: IC35L090AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0459500, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX216E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 156250000 sectors (80000 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=9726/255/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes

dmesg post 4

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: irq 23, pci mem f084c800
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW.
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size corrected to 128.
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jan-22
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 13:43:11 Dec 18 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff80, IRQ 16
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff60, IRQ 19
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff40, IRQ 18
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Adding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[20] MMIO=[fe1ff800-fe1fffff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[84ffffffffffff00] [Linux OHCI-1394]

dmesg post 5 (last)

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX216E Rev: PD01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
hdc: DMA disabled
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=f29, pflags=2)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/12x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (6139 buckets, 49112 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
i2c-core.o: i2c core module
i2c-core.o: adapter Smbus i8254x at 03:0e.0 Int registered as adapter 0.
i2c-core.o: adapter Smbus i8254x at 03:0e.0 Ext registered as adapter 1.
Loading i8254x SMBus driver. Version 3.0.9
i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module
i2c-core.o: driver i2c-dev dummy driver registered.
i2c-dev.o: Registered 'Smbus i8254x at 03:0e.0 Int' as minor 0
i2c-dev.o: Registered 'Smbus i8254x at 03:0e.0 Ext' as minor 1
i2c-proc.o version 2.6.1 (20010825)
Adding ASF alerting device watchdog driver.Version 3.0.6
i2c-core.o: driver ASF Alert device watchdog timer registered.
asfwdg: Attaching adapter Smbus i8254x at 03:0e.0 Int
i2c-core.o: client [ASF alert dev watchdog] registered to adapter [Smbus i8254x
at 03:0e.0 Int](pos. 0).
asfwdg: Attaching adapter Smbus i8254x at 03:0e.0 Ext
i2c-core.o: client [ASF alert dev watchdog] registered to adapter [Smbus i8254x
at 03:0e.0 Ext](pos. 0).
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.0.43-k1
Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Intel Corporation.
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xf09b8400, 00:0C:41:20:77:78, IRQ 22.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4363 Sat Apr 19 17:46:46 PDT 2003
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M
agpgart: Unsupported Intel chipset (device id: 2550), you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
agpgart: no supported devices found.
0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

This is the output from an attempt to write to data to CD

[root@pcp07744476pcs oracle]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,
0 -data number1.img
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J
?rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'SONY '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX216E '
Revision : 'PD01'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16
RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1895168 = 1850 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 1016 MB
Total size: 1167 MB (115:40.61) = 520546 sectors
Lout start: 1167 MB (115:42/46) = 520546 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
ATIP start of lead in: -12369 (97:17/06)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or simil
ar)
Manuf. index: 69
Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embarg
o.
The orange forum likes to get money for recent information
.
The information for this media may not be correct.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359326 Blocks remaini
ng: -161220
cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk.
cdrecord: Notice: Most recorders cannot write CD's >= 90 m
inutes.
cdrecord: Notice: Use -ignsize option to allow >= 90 minut
es.
cdrecord: Notice: Use -overburn option to write more than
the official disk capacity.
cdrecord: Notice: Most CD-writers do overburning only on S
AO or RAW mode.
[root@pcp07744476pcs oracle]# cdrecord -v -ignsize speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data number1.img
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'SONY '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX216E '
Revision : 'PD01'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1895168 = 1850 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 1016 MB
Total size: 1167 MB (115:40.61) = 520546 sectors
Lout start: 1167 MB (115:42/46) = 520546 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048

See next post for more output

continued

ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
ATIP start of lead in: -12369 (97:17/06)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 69
Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
The information for this media may not be correct.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359326 Blocks remaining: -161220
cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk.
cdrecord: Notice: Overburning active. Trying to write more than the official disk capacity.
Forcespeed is OFF.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is ON.
Turning BURN-Free off
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 523
Track 01: 0 of 1016 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 0B 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.024s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 28.071s
Average write speed 999.0x.
Fixating...
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x72 Qual 0x03 (session fixation error - incomplete track in session) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
Fixating time: 0.004s
cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

RH9 and two RW drives; one HP one Plextor. When I put a blank CDRW in either of my drives a window opens that is titled " burn:/// ". Then I drag and drop files and click on write CD. I think your RH9 should do the same. Did you leave anything out when you did the install?