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root@darkstar:~# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jп√rg 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'.
Do you have your CD burner set up as an IDE-SCSI device as is required with 2.4 kernels? You need to make sure that ide-scsi support is built in or loaded as a module and then you'll need to add something like append="hdc=ide-scsi" in your lilo.conf (assuming /dev/hdc is your burner). Once you've made the changes, rerun LILO and reboot. Google on cdrecord ide-scsi for more information -- there are some good links.
Are you running a 2.6 kernel? AFAIK you still need the ide-scsi stuff for 2.4 kernels. I've used nothing but 2.6 for some time now, so maybe they backported the abaility to do direct IDE CD writing to 2.4 without me ever noticing it.
thanks for adding that to your profile, although in this case i guess it didn't matter. i use the dev=ATAPI line for 2.6.x in /etc/default/cdrecord, and like btmiller i thought you needed to add the append lines to the bootloader for 2.4.x kernels. it still seems kind of strange that it would work, but like he said, maybe they changed something?
BTW, winxp's cd-writing app was detecting my 800M disks as 96M.
Once I've recorded a 800M disk using Nero, but now Nero couldn't record it either.
Very strange.
That's a rather odd problem, and one I've not seen before. You might try burning at a slower speed (say all the way down at 4x) and see if you have better luck, Otherwise, if it's malfunctioning under Windows, it sounds like the CD burner itself may be going bad.
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