[olug] Finding the CDR device

[Jay Swackhamer]

The atapi burning depends on the version of cdrecord, including the patch
that was submitted by Linus himself. The problem with it taking so long to
get native ATAPI support was the deal with 'it works' with
ide-scsi........and someone finally getting upset/time enough to do
something about it......

Dave, have you gotten it to work?



> On Monday 05 April 2004 10:23 pm, Adam Lassek wrote:
>> There's a much easier way to do this. You're using cdrecord 2.00.3,
>> which should be new enough. I'm using 2.01_alpha27 but I believe 1.11a
>> works. Replace the dev=6,0 line with dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdd. No scsi
>> emulation necessary.
>>
> ABOVE:
> only works in 2.6 kernels........... and last I checked, these were
> Gentoo-patched CDRecords, but I could be wrong on that one.  Dont quote
> me.
>> I'm kind of ashamed of linux that it took us this long to support atapi
>> burning natively.
>>
>> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 13:47, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
>> > If you are using a 2.4 kernel you will need to have ide-scsi
>> > setup in your kernel and pass the option hdd=ide-scsi  to the kernel
>> at
>> > boot time.
>> >
>> > for 2.6 you should pass hdd=ide-cd and use the atapi device, but if
>> you
>> > dont have a new enough version of cdrecord, you will have to use the
>> scsi
>> > emulation(ide-scsi) with 2.6 also.
>> >
>> > with ide-scsi installed, you should see the correct device when you do
>> a
>> > 'scanbus'
>> >
>> > > I've installed a IDE CD-RW drive on a lab box.  The device is
>> /dev/hdd.
>> > > I'd
>> > > like to test writing by writing an iso of Damnsmall Linux.  The man
>> > > pages for
>> > > cdrecord suggest using "dev=6,0" as the typical writing device So...
>> > >
>> > > root at jukebox:~/shares/damnsmall# cdrecord -V -v speed=12 -data
>> dev=0,6
>> > > damnsmall-0.6.1.iso
>> > > Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
>> > > Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
>> > > scsidev: '0,6'
>> > > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 6
>> > > cdrecord: No such device. Cannot open '/dev/pg0'. Cannot open SCSI
>> > > driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make
>> > > sure you are root.
>> > > cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
>> > >
>> > > Well! That's ugly.  Let's try
>> > >
>> > > root at jukebox:~/shares/damnsmall# cdrecord -scanbus
>> > > Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
>> > > Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open
>> '/dev/pg*'.
>> > > Cannot open SCSI
>> > > driver.
>> > > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure
>> you
>> > > are root.
>> > > cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
>> > >
>> > > Ooooooo.  That's Bad.
>> > >
>> > > What should I try next?
>> > >
>> > > Dave Thacker
>> > > -----------------
>> > > "The hard part of hunting elephants is carrying the decoys" --
>> Fortune
>> > >
>> > >
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