Re: cdrecord will not find generic scsi

Maybe that is what I shall do.  I will report back, but I suspect that will
work wonderfully.  I was hoping to avoid recompiling the kernel with SCSI
support statically linked in.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gwendolyn van der Linden" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:40 AM
Subject: RE: [gentoo-newbies] cdrecord will not find generic scsi


> Tom,
>
> I assume you have an IDE CDR drive, correct?
>
> I think it's better to compile SCSI support into the kernel, and add the
> kernel boot parameter hdb=ide-scsi (or whatever hd* your CD drive is on).
> You can add it in the GRUB menu.lst file.
>
> Otherwise the IDE driver claims the CDR drive, and you are too late...
>
> What output do you get from cdrecord -scanbus?
>
> Gwendolyn.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I have loaded the sg and ide-scsi modules manually, just to be sure.
> However, CD record still can not find the scsi devices.  Why is it looking
> at /dev/pg*?
>
> Cdrecord 1.11a30 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open
> SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
>
>
> Tom Veldhouse
>