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Old 06-09-2015, 05:06 PM   #1
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wodim (cdrecord) cannot open SCSI drive?


Hi guys, I'm trying burn .iso images or just learn to use the program but it's not doing what the guides said it would. I cannot get past the hurdle!

When typing wodim --devices or -scanbus it only results in the following :-(

wodim: No such file or directory.
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

sudo doesn't achieve anything, either :-/
I am not sure if this is a hardware issue or software.. Can't seem to find this exact problem anywhere else. Can anyone advice me?

Thanks for reading :-)
 
Old 06-10-2015, 06:02 AM   #2
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Does your kernel or kernel modules has support for burning. Check lsmod output for modules named 'sr_mod' and 'sg'. If it is built into kernel then check output of 'dmesg'. Also check permissions of '/dev/sr0'.
 
Old 06-10-2015, 12:23 PM   #3
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I am not very experienced in this, so, I don't know how to check what my kernel supports. I would have thought it would as Ubuntu should just work. However, I used "$lsmod" and sr_mod, nor sg are in the rather large list of modules. What command can I use to check the permissions of '/dev/sr0'?

Thanks for your reply :-)
 
Old 06-11-2015, 04:34 AM   #4
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Code:
lsmod | grep sr_mod
lsmod | grep sg
ls -l /dev/sr0
Can you access CD/DVD in the burner?

Also read the output of 'dmesg' command to find whether cdrom drivers get detected.
 
Old 06-12-2015, 10:53 AM   #5
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lsmod commands yield nothing while ls -l /dev/sr0 relieves "brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 10 16:04 /dev/sr0"
dmesg just shows a lot of confusion:

[58671.849870] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 9
US" operation="profile_replace" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=5465 comm="apparmor_parser"
[84164.056339] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x71 on isa0060/serio0).
[84164.056361] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes 71 <keycode>' to make it known.
[232845.999588] systemd-hostnamed[16987]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname!

those are just a few samples, what dmesg triggers. There are lines of that...
So, I guess my cd-rom is root only?
 
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So your /dev/sr0 has owner 'root' and group 'cdrom' and both read/write and other users are not allowed.

So you can try running wodim as 'root'. Or make your user part of 'cdrom' group and relogin and try wodim.
 
Old 06-12-2015, 03:52 PM   #7
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I did another search using grep (something I found while looking how to add groups) and it says I am part of the group (edwooger being my username)
edwooger@dragonfly:~$ grep edwooger /etc/group
cdrom:x:24:edwooger

Now, I am not really sure why I can't burn DVDs :-(
sorry for he fuss.
 
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Did you relogin/rebooted to take added group effect? What you got when run as 'root' user.
 
Old 06-13-2015, 05:30 PM   #9
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Same error happens when I login as root and really, I want to use wodim so I can learn to use the terminal to do my tasks. Ubuntu, I don't know what is going on but the build in GUI burner works. I can't understand why it won't let me use wodim :-(

I don't know if this can be solved?
 
Old 06-13-2015, 07:50 PM   #10
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wodim's default device ID is /dev/cdrom which should be a link to the actual burner i.e /dev/sr0. If not, then you will get the posted error.

Post the output of the command:
ls -l /dev/cdrom

What happens when you try the command:

wodim dev=/dev/sr0 --scanbus
 
Old 06-14-2015, 03:28 PM   #11
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Eureka! it worked
wodim dev=/dev/sr0 --scanbus
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SN-208AB ' 'TO02' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
That's a spot of good news :-)
Does sr0 work on every dvd drive? Sorry for the obvious question. I just like to know what to type for future devices.
 
Old 06-14-2015, 04:25 PM   #12
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The first DVD/CDROM drive will be /dev/sr0, the second /dev/sr1 etc.

Did you verify if you had a /dev/cdrom link?
 
Old 06-27-2015, 05:32 PM   #13
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lsblk shows my rom drive so I hope that's how I verify it.
Apologies for the late response, I just got back from abroad.
I thought since I have the device name I could test burning a cd but this is all I got:
edwooger@dragonfly:~$ wodim dev=/dev/rs0 -v -data Downloads/crux-3.1/iso/crux-3.1.iso
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Assuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.
scsidev: '/dev/rs0'
devname: '/dev/rs0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
wodim: No such file or directory.
Cannot open SCSI driver!
 
Old 06-27-2015, 06:10 PM   #14
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Quote:
dev=/dev/rs0
Oops... /dev/sr0
 
Old 06-30-2015, 03:10 PM   #15
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Opps, sorry :-x
It's working now :-) Thanks for the help.
 
  


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