[ale] SCSI Emulation (CD-R)

[Geoffrey]

I think this error is indicative of a missing scsi module, do you have 
the sg module loaded?

Try 'insmod sg'  then cdrecord -scanbus

David Corbin wrote:
> My system used to recognize my CD-RW drive (an HP IDE drive).  Now it 
> doesn't.  I don't think this is CD-R failure, because scanbus should 
> just say 'no devices' (effectively), shouldn't it?
> 
> 
> dmesg shows:
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> 
> [root at mercury /usr/src/linux]# cdrecord  -scanbus        Cdrecord 1.8 
> (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you 
> are root.
> 
> I don't understand cdrecords error message well enough to know what file 
> or directory it cannot open.  Anyideas?
> 
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