troubles with CD burning

[Svend Sorensen]

I just use `dev=hdc' for my IDE burner (no ide-scsi).  Try running
`cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -scanbus'.  Here is my output:

<snip>
Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'.
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) '_NEC    ' 'DVD_RW ND-3520A ' '1.04' Removable CD-ROM
        0,1,0     1) *
        0,2,0     2) *
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7) *

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:06:51 +0100, grap <pascal.gregis at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have ecently installed an Ubuntu on my Dell laptop.
> Until now I have been learning about the apt facilities and I am now testing
> if everything works well on the distribution.
> 
> My first problem (I hope I won't have any others) is related to CD burning.
> This is the following :
> 
> When I boot my machine, I've got the following lines in /var/log/messages :
> 
> Mar 13 22:56:57 osborne kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> Mar 13 22:56:57 osborne kernel: hdc: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-324S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> 
> that means that my CDrom drive is recognized on /dev/hdc.
> 
> I have the followin in lsmod :
> 
> ide_cd                 38276  0
> cdrom                  35872  1 ide_cd
> 
> I can mount my cdrom :
> $ grep cdrom /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> $ mount /media/cdrom
> $ umount /media/cdrom
> $
> 
> but when I try cdrecord I have the following :
> $ cdrecord -scanbus
> cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8.1-3-386
> cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
> cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
> cdrecord: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface changes.
> cdrecord: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root programs.
> cdrecord: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root account.
> 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.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
> 
> Even if I know that ide-scsi is deprecated for CD burning with kernel 2.6, I tried unloading ide-cd and cdrom, then loading scsi_mod, ide-scsi, cdrom, sr_mod but had no result too.
> I even tried to put hdc=ide-scsi in the command line to start system (in grub: boot/grub/menu.lst), but nothing.
> 
> When loading ide-scsi, I also saw in my logs a line telling me to use cdrecord dev=/dev/... so I tried
> $ cdrecord -dummy -v dev=/dev/hdc filetoburn
> but had the same as the scanbus result.
> 
> I also tried to recompile cdrecord from sources, loaded and unloaded many times the modules, but no result.
> 
> I'm really getting out of ideas and find no better solution than asking for help, so could anyone give me a clue on this problem?
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> --
> Grap
> 
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