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Old 09-10-2004, 04:19 PM   #1
beebop
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CD burner problems: "cannot open /dev/sg*"


First off, the problem: While trying to burn a cd from gtoaster-1.0Beta5, I get this message:

cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Assuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have drive depentent defaults.
cdrecord: Continueing in 5 seconds...
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

Here are the details:
I built this computer fairly recently (Jan 2004) from newegg.com, so all the components are new. My CD-RW drive is a Lite-On LTR-52327S (IDE). I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Red Hat 9. The CD Burner has never worked since I've upgraded, but worked fine with gtoaster before. Currently, 'cdrecord -scanbus' shows my Lite-On to be on "scsibus1: 1,0,0" and I can read data perfectly fine from it.
After I upgraded the distribution, I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.8 and reconfigured it to get my ipod to work with linux -- iPod works PERFECTly! I'm so happy :) Anyway, 'lsmod' showed no scsi-ide, so I ran 'modprobe scsi-ide' to add the module to my kernel.
My /etc/fstab file has the line '/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0' I read somewhere to try /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdc, but that resulted in the same error as shown above.

I don't understand why it won't work now when it worked so easily before. With Red Hat 9, gtoaster was already installed, and I simply opened it, set it up in under 5 minutes, and I was burning audio CDs. Simple!

If anyone has any suggestions, tests to run, or helpful hints, please reply. Thanks,

Beebop
 
Old 09-10-2004, 05:32 PM   #2
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Please do not post the same thread in more than one forum. Picking the most relevant forum and posting it once there makes it easier for other members to help you and keeps the discussion all in one place.

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