Ok, I'm trying to get my CD burner working in Linux (Debian SID). It worked the last time I installed Debian (which wasn't long ago, I just went back to Windows because I needed to use some software that wouldn't run in WINE). However, this time, it doesn't want to work.
I installed CDRecord, from the Debian mirrors (and once downloading it through Debian's web-based package search tool) and all I get is the following:
Code:
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-1-386
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
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'.
cdrecord:
cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc
cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .
Reading /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup was no help either. The first thing they ask you to do
is run
Code:
# cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus
Which just keeps doing this
Code:
scsidev: 'ATA:'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -1 target: -1 lun: -1
Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
and it repeats that last line till I kill it.
Now, I'm about to compile a new kernel to see if that'll help. If you guys have any other suggestions, I'll try them out.
Thanks.