HI i'm able to use my cd-writer via /dev/pcd0 then i rmmod pcd and insmod pg pg says (/var/log/messages): Apr 27 11:47:38 erez kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 Apr 27 11:47:38 erez kernel: pg0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378 Apr 27 11:47:38 erez kernel: pg0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 1 Apr 27 11:47:50 erez kernel: pg0: HP CD-Writer+ 7100, slave then i use cdrecord: # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord release 1.8a14 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. # and the log gives: Apr 27 11:48:35 erez modprobe: can't locate module block-major-97 #lsmod Module Size Used by pg 5540 0 (unused) sg 4080 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport_pc 5020 1 (autoclean) epat 6636 1 paride 3276 1 [pg epat] parport 6996 1 [parport_pc paride] [snip] so: pg is in pg is block-major-97 (so says pg when started, see log) cdrecord tryes to open /dev/pg0 (I saw that via strace) but the kernel does not know to connect it ro the already inserted module pg. (btw, cat /dev/pg0 says the same: modprobe: can't locate module block-major-97) details: RedHat 5.9, kernel 2.2.3-5 same problem occured on RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36 machine: Toshiba Laptop, Pentium II what am i doing wrong ? regards erez.
