Need some help with cdrecord recognizing my devices. Using 'cdrecord -scanbus' it tells me:

"Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'."

Since 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't work I'm not sure what the device parameters are.

Right now I'm stuck with K3B .

Shouldn't that be /dev/sg*, my cd/rw is on sg0 and my scanner is sg1

I am not sure how the program that you want to use works but if K3B works then cdrecord works.

Did you run cdrecord -scanbus as root?

I ran 'cdrecord -scanbus' as user and root. Both give that above error.

I'm not sure if it should be '/dev/sg*' or '/dev/pg*'.

When I was on FC3 I used "-dev=ATA:1,1,0". On Slack it gives me this error:

"Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: 'ATA:1,1,0'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0
Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'."

When it says:

"cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot open SCSI driver."

That is the device, it just isn't working.

As I said I'm not sure about how it all works, but if K3B works .....

Does K3B work?

Just had another read.

Do you have append=ide-scsi in your lilo.conf?

Yes K3B does work.

'append=ide-scsi' is not in my lilo.conf . . . Should I add it? Would I add it under 'root = /dev/hda2'?

Thanks for you help by the way .

If you use kernel 2.4 then add the line
to your lilo.conf and then run lilo. If you use kernel 2.6 you should not need to add the line.

Just curious if K3B works why do you need to know what the device parameters are? In other words what are you trying to do?

if you use 2.6 kernel, add the line:
And run cdrecord -scanbus -dev=ATA

I'm on 2.4 kernel so I'll add that top line. Thanks for the replies .

samac: I like using cdrecord to burn. If I know how to do something using command I usually prefer to do it that way since it makes my mind work more often.

I'll try this out probably later today. I can't afford a reboot at the moment. Unless, there's a way to do it without rebooting, though I assume since it's lilo you'd have to reboot?