Cdrecord

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 17:50 -0600, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
> I just installed a new Plextor CDR/RW/DVD writer.
> Tt's recognized in the device manager also shows up in /etc/fstab and 
> the mount command shows that is is mounted as /dev/hda on /media/cdrom0.
> 
> However when I say:
> cdrecord -scanbus (as root), I see:
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open 
> SCSI driver.
> 
> I'm running Warty with the 2.6.8.1-5-k7 kernel.
> 
> The only thing I can think of is adding hda=SCSI to the kernel line in 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst - which I understand is no longer necessary with the 
> 2.6.x kernel.
> Googling isn't turning up anything useful.
> I feel like I'm missing something simple but can't guess what it might be.
> Any help?
> 
> TIA
> Curt
> 
Try:
        sudo cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus


It works for, though, I'm using Hoary.
Ziyad.