dvdrom + dvdrw not found through scanbus
 

i can use both drives pefectly fine and they are in /dev/dvdrom and /dev/dvd
(both are link to the actual devices.

ne recording program i use to burn something tells me that there are NO recording devices found ...

what d0 i do?

here's a scanbus from cdrecord for an example of how both are not found

# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (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.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

and i *am* root btw ,

ne help would be greatly appreciated =\

SCSI
 

make sure you have the approprate SCSI modules or kernel support. SCSI emulation and generic SCSI i think.

no ide-scsi?
 

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
nvidia 1965152 6 (autoclean)
audio 41656 0
keybdev 1952 0 (unused)
mousedev 4244 1
hid 21156 0 (unused)
usbmouse 2008 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
parport_pc 14724 0
parport 23264 0 [parport_pc]
uhci 24496 0 (unused)
usbcore 58400 1 [audio hid usbmouse uhci]
emu10k1 61064 2
ac97_codec 9512 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3332 6 [audio emu10k1]
emu10k1-gp 1352 0 (unused)
gameport 1452 0 [emu10k1-gp]
tulip 40928 1
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]
pcmcia_core 40032 0
ide-scsi 9424 0
agpgart 39576 3


alth0 they work fine when i mountthem and read from both drives there seems to be no ide-scsi devices whe ni lsmod...

You might try this:

Put a cd in the drive, and run:

cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0 -atip

If that dumps info on your drive and the CD in it, just forget -scanbus, and specify the dev=ATAPI:0,0 when burning.

This will use the ide driver rather than SCSI emulation (you don't even need ide-scsi module loaded for this). This defintely works for me in the 2.6 kernel, and I've even used it in the later 2.4 kernels with no problems.

This will allow you to record CD's. To record DVD's you need to get one of the modified versions of cdrecord with DVD support, or get a copy of growisofs (which is what I use). If you use KDE, download K3B, and it will run growisofs for DVD's, and cdrecord for CD's.

I hope this works for you.

_john_i_

oki cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0 -atip w0rks for me but it doens't work under k3b because i don't have ide-scsi emulation enabled =C ne suggestions?

What version of K3B are you using? The latest versions will work without SCSI emulation.
I use 0.11, and it works fine for me.

You may have to go into the k3b config and explicitly give it the /dev/hdX device for the writer.

i HAD .10 installed.. i removed it and installed .11 but it STILL came up with the error "no atapi support" .. only this time it had the option startk3bsetup2 i did that but then the err0r came up ne wayz and it seemd as if the startk3bsetup2 was jus to select ur burners and the l0t..........

maybe i should somehow get scsi emulation?