Try cdrecord -dev=ATA -scanbus to see if cdrecord finds any devices on the normal ide bus not the scsi device. Then if it does find the device you should be able to use the dev=ATA:0,0,0 or dev=ATA:0,1,0 whichever it is you want to use as the device when burning instead of the dev=0,0,0 or dev=0,1,0 you would normally use when using the ide-scsi.

thank you for quick reply....here is output for 2.6.7 kernel using above suggestion...
again thank you so much....now what do i do..sorry to be of bother...but i find documentation on this matter quick confusing..

Your not the only one I figure it out most times either through trial and error or having read the correct information online somewhere else unless the maker of the docs has actually went out of their way to make them human readable or provided some decent example commands. For your output above I am assuming that the burner is the mitsumi so you would use dev=ATA:1,0,0 in a cdrecord command so try something like this cdrecord -dummy -v -eject speed=8 dev=ATA:1,0,0 some_file_to_burn.iso and it should do a test burn at 8x speed and eject after finishing telling you what it is doing (-v). You may want to look into using a front end burning application like K3b or Xcdroast to make things easier.

thank you so much steve.....

finally i have it working......was only thing other than ALSA i have trouble installing with in debian. ..

Your welcome. Are you still having problems with the alsa? If so I see from your earlier post that you are running a 2.6 kernel so all you is install the packages alsa-base and alsa-utils then run the alsa-config as root and it should detect your card(s) and give you a list of cards in the system choose the one you want to use if there is more than one. Then make sure that you as normal user in a console window use the alsamixer to unmute the Master and PCM volumes and put them at about 75% then exit the mixer with the ESC key and the default levels should be saved and used on the next reboot.

yes, k3b is an excellent program,
make sure you get the binary package, becuase to compile from source you will need this mighty large package called qt.
according to the kernel 2.6.x config ide-scsi is no longer needed to burn cds with cdrecord versions after whatever

This is the output I recived when executing command cdrecord -scanbus.

Can anyone advise on what I have done wrong?

cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
1,0,0 100) 'LG ' 'CD-ROM CRD-8483B' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9100c' 'H2,1' Removable CD-ROM
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

If you are looking for a good gnome-cd-burner look for Gnome Baker... I am using it now. It is really good. A bit like K3B. Still needs a lot of work but is fully functional.

Cheers,
kamstrup