K, I added my CDR to the PREFERENCES > CD Recorder setup window as;

Device file : /dev/cdrom (like what my fstab says)
Mount Point: /mnt/cdrom
Scsi ID: 0,0 (already assigned)
"This Drive is a CD writer" [CHECKED}

I apply changes, select my burner, select the Ogg files i'd like to burn as data to the CD and get this in the little output window:

cdrecord: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/pg0'. cannot open SCSI Driver.
Child extied unexpectedly
CD recording process finished.

I did the 'cdrecord - scanbus' Im pretty sure it's a IDE/SCSI setting that im doing wrong. Can anyone help me out?

Thank you sooo much.
BpK

then at console, (cause toaster told me to do this):

[root@localhost bkeating]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.


So I assume my system isn't even detecing my CDR? It's a brand new Liteon 48x12x48X

Have a look at the cd-writing howto it tells you all the settings you need to make. I just went through it myself and it works.

Ben, post here the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf file. Basically I am looking for the append line to have the scsi emulation in it. Also, is this a default kernel, and what distro if so? You might need a kernel rebuild, although I haven't come across a distro that didn't include support for scsi's by default so that'd be strange if you did.

Anyway, yeah post both the contents of /etc/lilo.conf and what "lsmod" returns.

Cool

Below are the changes I added to my system that worked for me..


lilo.conf

image=/boot/zImage-2.2.14
label=Linux
read-only
append="hdb=ide-scsi"


ADD TO /ETC/MODULES.CONF ( change the drive letter to suit your setup


options ide-cd ignore=hdx # tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdX
alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
#pre-install ide-scsi modprobe imm # uncomment for some ZIP drives only
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before ide-scsi


If your CD-writer is the only CD-ROM attached to your machine, then remember you have to access the CD-ROM in the writer through the device file /dev/scd× where ×=0,..,8. You may want to change the symbolic name cdrom to point to the new device file name. The listing below shows the command to achieve this with the example scd0.


cd /dev && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom

I use GRUB (and thank you for helping guys )

grub.conf;

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img


----------------------------------------------------------

lsmod:

[root@localhost etc]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
i810_audio 25224 2 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13416 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6532 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
r128 93176 1
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 17704 1
mii 2156 0 [8139too]
ipt_REJECT 3736 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14936 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107240 1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 1
cdrom 33696 0 [ide-cd]
ohci1394 20108 0 (unused)
ieee1394 46892 0 [ohci1394]
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5920 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
ehci-hcd 17480 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 21320 0 (unused)
usbcore 77024 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
ext3 70368 2
jbd 52212 2 [ext3]



thanks again

k, grub has a hdc=ide-scsi option... dunno whats up

should the module sg be loaded?
i don't see it there.

none of your burning software is going to work
if
cdrecord -scanbus doesn't see your drive.

try modprobe sg

# modprobe sg
#

(returned nothing back to the screen... just a new line. )

thats what its supposed to do.
run
cdrecord -scanbus
after that to see if your drive shows up.