Cdrecord won't work

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Fri Oct 3 19:11:43 EDT 2003


Yes, cdrecord is only for scsi devices. Having said that, if you have
an ide drive, you will need to have ide-scsi emulation support in your
kernel, so that your ide drive will be emulated as a scsi drive for
use with cdrecord. 

Greg


On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:01:42AM +0100, Darragh wrote:
> Hello.
> Now I know this is probably a really stupid question but I'm going to
> ask any way.
> 
> Is cdrecord only for SCSI devices?  Everything there seems to point to
> scsi.
> 
> I'm having a problem.  It keeps telling me that it cant open the scsi
> drive.  Then it tells me to run the cdrecord -scanbus program but that's
> the program that I've run in the first place.  The output from the
> program is below.
> 
> Cdrecord 1.10 1686-pc-linux-gnu Copyright C 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory, Cannot open scsi drive, cdrecord:
> for possible targets try cdrecord -scanbus, make sure you are root
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 
> Darragh
> 
> 
> 
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