[ale] cdr problems

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Oct 31 21:01:59 EST 2001


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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