[Gllug] cdrom writing

[Peter Childs]

On 02/04/06, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 03:57:45PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot
> > open SCSI driver.
>
> That message is quite clear.  It is trying to connect to the CD device
> by a name that does not exist in your /dev/ directory.  Either you do
> not have the correct modules loaded or you have not configured cdrecord
> to be using the correct device.
>
> So check that you have the right modules loaded, for a start.  Then
> check that you are passing the right device to cdrecord, which you can
> do either using the dev= parameter or (on Debian, at least) by editing
> /etc/cdrecord/cdrecord.
>
> > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
>
> Try doing that as well.
>
> > 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 .
>
> And try that.  Read the documentation.  This is something that you
> frequently fail to do before asking questions on the list.
>

I've read the docs but they are all more than 5 years out of date, and
it was working last time I remember.

Peter Childs
Beginning to believe that Linux is as bad as windows and that he
should go back to 2.4! at least it worked reliably.

> > Like most things on computers thinks don't just work
> > Normally I'm quite good with computers
>
> Not from the evidence of your posts here.
>
> --
> Bruce
>
> Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
>
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