WTF with Wodim - CD Burning?

[Brandon McGinty-Carroll]

On my machine, I get the same issue.
Does "wodim dev=/dev/sr0 filename.iso" give you anything?

Brandon McGinty-Carroll

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:14:52AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I have a setup here which has always worked for me in the past where I
> could use genisofs to build an ISO image and that still works great.
> But alas wodim is another story.  I always used in the past up to
> about a year ago with no problems.  Now I get errors that cannot find
> any devices.  I will add a script listing to the bottom of this
> message when I'm through.
> 
> I'm using a 3.5 kernel on Arch Linux and this is an HP laptop with a
> typical CD burner. internal.  It has been defined as /dev/sr0 in the
> past and actually, CD's and DVD's read fine in this device right now.
> So, what could be missing here?
> ----- Begin wodim session -----
> Script started on Fri 05 Oct 2012 04:05:12 AM PDT
> steve at linlap ~$ wodim --devices
> wodim: No such file or directory. 
> Cannot open SCSI driver!
> For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
> For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
> For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
> the wodim documentation.
> steve at linlap ~$ wodim dev=help --devices
> Supported SCSI transports for this platform:
> 
> Transport name:		sg
> Transport descr.:	Generic transport independent SCSI
> Transp. layer ind.:	
> Target specifier:	bus,target,lun
> Target example:		1,2,0
> SCSI Bus scanning:	supported
> Open via UNIX device:	not supported
> 
> Transport name:		ATA
> Transport descr.:	ATA Packet specific SCSI transport
> Transp. layer ind.:	ATAPI:
> Target specifier:	bus,target,lun
> Target example:		ATAPI:1,2,0
> SCSI Bus scanning:	supported
> Open via UNIX device:	not supported
> 
> Transport name:		ATA
> Transport descr.:	ATA Packet specific SCSI transport using sg interface
> Transp. layer ind.:	ATA:
> Target specifier:	bus,target,lun
> Target example:		1,2,0
> SCSI Bus scanning:	supported
> Open via UNIX device:	not supported
> 
> Transport name:		RSCSI
> Transport descr.:	Remote SCSI
> Transp. layer ind.:	REMOTE:
> Target specifier:	rscsi at host:bus,target,lun
> Target example:		REMOTE:rscsi at host:1,2,0
> SCSI Bus scanning:	supported
> Open via UNIX device:	not supported
> steve at linlap ~$ exit
> exit
> 
> Script done on Fri 05 Oct 2012 04:06:40 AM PDT
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