I am trying to load ide-cd and I get fatal module not found.

Any ideas on how to fix it ? (This is as root).

Can you provide details on your problem? I assume that your trying to get your CD writer working. The correct module name is ide-scsi and not ide-cd. With the 2.6 kernels the ide-scsi module is no longer required. However, I have seen posts where writing a CD worked better with the module then without.

Yes I am trying to get my CD writer working. And the above was what I found somewhere on the internet.

Is SuSE still your current distribution?
What CD burning utility are you trying to use? I suggest k3b.

To use the ide-scsi module you would add a kernel option to the grub menu file (/boot/grub/menu.lst) in the form of hdx=ide-scsi where hdx is the location of the CD writer. i.e. hdc = 2nd controller master like:

kernel (hd0............root=....... hdc=ide-scsi

After modifing the file you will need to reboot the computer. To verify everything is working use the cdrecord command
cdrecord --scanbus

1) No Knoppix 3.9 sorry I must change that.
2) I did try k3b but I had a problem so I tried to use the just cdrecord. (I can not remember the problem as I am at work).
3) Thanks for those suggestions I will try it later.

My comments on working better were based on SuSE with a stock older 2.6 kernel.
Knoppix uses a 2.6 kernel so loading the ide-scsi module is not required.

To determine if cdrecord can see the writer try.
cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus

To burn via cdrecord example:
cdrecord dev=ATAPI:x,x,x image.iso (dev=ATAPI:x,x,x use the actual results from the output of scanbus)

It would help to know the exact problem.

This is the error message I get from the front end :-

root@Knoppix:/home/David/Documents/passwordrecovery# view error.txt
root@Knoppix:/home/David/Documents/passwordrecovery# cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -v /home/David/Documents/passwordrecovery/cd060213.iso
This is wodim, not cdrecord. Don't expect it to behave like cdrecord in any
way, don't refer to it as "cdrecord". Send problem reports to
debburn-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, don't bother Joerg Schilling with any
problems caused by this application.
Copyright (C) 2006 cdrkit maintainers, (C) 1994-2006 Joerg Schilling

cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0

Warning: This version of libscg has not been configured via the standard
autoconfiguration method of the Schily makefile system. There is a high risk
that the code is not configured correctly and for this reason will not behave
as expected.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'wodim -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
cdrecord:
cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrkit-doc
cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/wodim/README.ATAPI.setup .

Someone in another thread suggested doing this :-

cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,1 /home/David/Documents/passwordrecovery/cd060213.iso
Which just froze the shell and sometimes the PC.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=492297

I then did :-
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.

And it said device not supported under unix.
I googled that and found the above fix somewhere. Which gave the above error.

BTW I once had this problem when I dabbled with Mephis the solution was easy - use the 2.4xx kernel instead of 2.6 however this was a default option with Mephis it is not with Knoppix.


Thanks for all the help sorry this is so convuluted and I have changed my distro information.

Read your other thread. I'm not familar with wodim. Try the ide-scsi module and see what happens.

I will do thanks a lot.

It just says :-
FATAL: Module ide_scsi not found.