[ale] cdr problems

[David Corbin]

I've only burned about 50 CDs.  About 20 of those have been on Linux, and 30
on Windows, but with the same drive.   I have yet to make a coaster....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>; "Ken Nagorski"
<kenn at pcintelligent.com>
Cc: "Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] cdr problems


> I turn more CDs into coasters by using cdrecord than I do by using Adaptec
> in Windows.  I starting to believe it is a xcombination of my 3 year old
> HP7200i and ide-scsi.
>
> Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:02 PM
> To: Ken Nagorski
> Cc: Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] cdr problems
>
>
> AARRGGHH! Modules and IDE CD burners!
>
> I am running the devfs stuff so my setup is a bit different.
> I also gave up and compiled in my generic scsi driver. So now I have a
> device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic that has a symlink
> /dev/sg0 pointing to it. Miracles happen and cdrecord works!
>
> Try scrapping the pre-install lines and just run a modprobe sg. That
> should install the sg driver and everything it depends on in the proper
> order.
>
> If only scsi were as affordable as IDE...
>
> On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 19:42, Ken Nagorski wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Has anyone played with IDE cdr's? I have on and this is the deal,
whenever
> > I run `cdrecord -scanbus` I get this error.
> >
> > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling
> > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are
> > root.
> >
> >
> > But this is what dmesg shows,
> >
> > hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1024kB Cache, DMA
> >
> > So with that said, let me tell you where I am at. I have this in the
> > /etc/modules.conf
> >
> > options ide-cd ignore=hdd            # tell the ide-cd module to ignore
> > hdb
> > alias scd0 sr_mod                    # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
> > 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
> >
> >
> > Now there is a little problem, I am not huge on using modules however,
> > shouldn't those load when I boot? Did I do something wrong? Cause I see
no
> > modules when first boot. If I load all of those by hand I still get the
> > error. Hmm?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >
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