CDRW Problems.
 

Hello.

I have recently moved over to Gentoo from RedHat. I have it pretty much how I want it. There is one thing though. For the life of me I can't get cdrecord to work.

I have enabled / disabled everything that I can see relative in the kernel, and have added switches at the kernel line (hdc=ide-scsi)

hdc=ide-scsi allowed cdrecord -scanbus to pick up a device on RedHat but now with Gentoo I get....

cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.

Can anyone tell me what I am supposed to enabled in the kernel. And / or any arguements I need to pass in grub.conf.

Thanks alot if anyone can help me out here.

Best Regards,

Craig :)

are you suing a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel ?

if you are using a 2.6 kernel then SCSI emulation is obsolite. you can burn directly to an IDE disk drive (/dev/hdc)

if you are using the onld 2.4 series, then you MUST have scsi emulation compiled into the kernel. and you must have the modules loaded !

'uname -r' will let you know what kernel you are running.

if its a 2.4 kernel...
did you configure the kernel yourself ?
if so did you enable scsi emulation ?
if you enabled scsi emulation, did you compile it in, or compile as a module ?
if you compiled as a module, is the module loaded ?

you can have a look at what you configured by running
'cat /usr/src/linux-<version>/.config | grep SCSI'

anything about emulation ? if so, is it set 'Y' , 'M' or not set ?

sorry about all the questions, but with the info you have already posted, it could be anything... its probably somthing simple... but there's nothing wrong with a little overkill ;)

Hello,

I am running 2.4 without SCSI emulation. I got it fixed over the weekend though. I am running cdrtools 2.01.

cdrtools 2 allows you to burn with IDE drives without SCSI emulation. This is all you have to do to burn, instead of using cdrecord dev=0,0,0 (SCSI emulation).... you can use cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 this works a treat.

Thanks for your reply.

Best Regards,

Craig :)