cdrecord???

[David Williamson]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:22 +1100, andrew fries wrote:

> Try this: cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI ... I don't have a burner on my 
> Ubuntu box, but this works on my other system.

Gives me this:

 #  cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of
cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original
version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools at packages.debian.org>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.

scsidev: 'ATAPI'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
cdrecord: 
cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc
cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .

Not sure why it's trying to open /dev/hda, as that's my hard drive.  The
CD is /dev/hdc.

dave