[Gllug] CD-Rom Writing,

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Peter Childs wrote:

> I'm trying to write some files to a cdrom again and my cdrom writter has 
> stopped working under linux again I can't see whats wrong and i've 
> tryied everything even upgrading to 2.6.

Open a shell, su to root and then execute the following:

cdrecord -scanbus

or if that does not work:

cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus

If neither of these shows you a list of cd devices including your cdrw 
drive your system would seem not to have recognised the device at all 
which would be very unusual.

If the latter of these works you don't have ide-scsi (which I consider to 
be a good thing not to have!) and should ensure that which ever frontend 
you are using to cdrecord knows this. Alternatively just use cdrecord 
directly - it is very easy.

Jason Clifford
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