On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, mike wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:40:04 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I read somewhere about somebody's problems with xcdroast. My problem is even > > simpler (stupider?) I can't get cdrecord to work under debian.
(27 lines of foolishness cut out ) > > My kernel version is the potato default kernel 2.2.17. My CD-RW is an > > ironicially named Best CD Writer. It works under Linux-Mandrake. > > > > I believe I have loaded all the necessary modules (sg + ide-scsi) and have > > the > > proper devices in /dev. Just to be sure I did a MAKEDEV (something the > > installation of cdrecord is supposed to do anyways), deleting /potato > > default kerneldev/sg* and > > recreating them. So why the message "cdrecord: No such file or directory. > > Cannot open SCSI driver"? > > > > What have I forgotten/failed to do? This is the final piece of the puzzle > > in my > > making my Debian installation as usable as my Linux-Mandrake (I now have > > sound > > and ppp under Debian. Wow!) > > > > Well i had a similar problem with my potato default kernel 2.2.17 > which has IDECD driver compiled into the kernel and IDESCSI > loaded as a module. The IDESCSI driver can only access the > CDRW if the IDECD driver doesn't grab it first (the IDECD driver should be > compiled as a module or not at all if using IDESCSI). > So by adding to lilo.conf the line: append="hd?=ide-scsi" > the device file representing CDRW (hd?) is passed to the ide-scsi > driver in the kernel before the ide-cd driver can grab it. Thanks. Just what the doctor prescribed. > This means that your bootup messages will list the drives > detected by the ide-scsi emulation. If you dont get these messages then it > hasn't worked. > Once you get these messages then run# cdrecord -scanbus > and you should get a listing with your CDRW dev at e.g. 0,0,0. > Then use that in cdrecord dev=0,0,0 ..... and all goes well. > This is a long-winded explanation because it took me a long > time to make sense out of this. In any case it worked. YMMV. My chocolate (MM) uses grub. I found out I needed to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Debian kernel (hd0,17)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda18 hdc=ide-scsi Also, for the newbie maintenance faq: I had to unlink "/dev/cdrom" from "hdc" to "scd0" to make the writer usable as a vanilla cdrom.
