cdrecord question

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, your drive is ide/atapi, but you're emulating it as ide-scsi. This means that even though your drive is ide/atapi, your system now thinks that it is a scsi drive. So, you need both scsi cd-rom support, and generic scsi.
Greg


On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:04:51PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi. Ide_scsi=y CONFIG_SCSI=y. I don't see why I would need Scsi Cdrom
> support, because both my Cdrom and Cdrw drives are both ide/atapi.
> According to the Cd writing howto, I had to pass hdd=ide-scsi to the scsi
> emulation driver. As a result, my Cd burner appears as a device in
> /proc/scsi/scsi. However, cdrecord says that it can't open scsi driver
> when I
> use /dev/sg0? I am currently only doing everything as root for testing
> purposes, then I'll deal with the users once I get it working. Also, does
> CONFIG_CHR_SG refer to generic scsi character devices, not scsi Cdroms?
> Thanks!  On Sun, 5 May 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> 
> > Hi Igor.
> > 1. Did you also make sure that your kernel has scsi emulation, scsi, scsi cdrom,
> > and generic scsi compiled in? I think the standard kernel with redhat has these
> > compiled in, but with debian you may have to recompile your kernel. Don't know
> > about other distros?
> > 2. Check your permissions for sg0 or which ever generic device matches. I don't
> > remember if this was a problem for cdrecord, but it was a problem for some
> > programs that had me stumped for a while. If you can run it as root but not as
> > you, this may be the problem.
> > 3. there are changes you have to make in order to run cdrecord as a user instead
> > of root. I don't have them right at hand but the needed changes are shown in the
> > cdrw howto.
> >
> > You should be able to find what to use for the device by running cdrecord
> > -scanbus. For instance, when i use cdrecord, I do
> > dev=0,0,0
> > as my cdrecorder is the first such device.
> >
> >
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