cdrw under Slackware 8.1
 

Hello All

I've just installed Slackware 8.1 and I'm trying to use cdrecord to burn an ISO. I've used cdrecord bazillions of times under Red Hat and I've setup my kernel the same way here. My Plextor cdrw works just fine so far with the modules loaded:

root@picard:/usr/src# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sg 24668 0 (autoclean) (unused)
nvidia 1463264 10 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 7696 0
ide-cd 27172 0
cdrom 28992 0 [ide-cd]
scsi_mod 83560 2 [sg ide-scsi]

Again, this is the identical setup I se in Red Hat. Now, when I try to use cdrecord, I get an error about /dev/pg* :

root@picard:/usr/src# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.11a24 (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.


What is this /dev/pg* ? I've never had to MAKEDEV this device, nor have I ever seen this error before.

Thanks for any pointers!

JB

PS: I assumed this is more of a hardware than software question. If it belongs in the sw forum, let me know.

Hm this is weird. Are you sure that you're root when you're running the scanbus? Also did you remember to put append "hdc=ide-scsi" in your /etc/lilo.conf?

I figured it out
 

Being rather new to Slackware (coming from Red Hat) the first thing I did was write my usual /etc/modules.conf, not knowing that Slack does this primarily in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules - I was trampling all over the module loads from that file. Slack already had it setup correctly.

All set now, just needed to clear everything but my nVidia entry out of modules.conf.

Thanks for the reply!

JB