[Gllug] CD-Rom Writing,

[Peter Childs]

Jason Clifford wrote:

>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:
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>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
>  
>
    I'm getting this feeling that my version of cdrecord (as far as /I 
know its debian testing version) is not working properly, it does not 
understand ATAPI at all and does not work on the ide-scsi!

    I'm going to try the version in ustable and then possible try 
stable, Good old debian.

Peter
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