[ale] Can't get my CDRW drive to burn :-(

[J. Cary Howell]

cdrecord is not seeing any compatible burning device.  I think the dead
give-away might be the No CD/DVD-Recorder device specified message.

You might should do the following to double-check me

cdrecord -scanbus

This should return on what scsi bus, target and lun your CDRW is located
on.  If it doesn't (and I'm assuming you are using a IDE CDRW you
probably need to add something like hdd=ide-scsi to your grub
configuration file.  This also assumes that hdd is not a valid IDE
device in your system and that you have SCSI device emmulation enabled
in the kernel.

Finally, cdrecord -scanbus would return output similar to the following
on successfully locating your CDRW--

Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling 
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'IOMEGA  ' 'ZIPCD3840INT-A  ' '1.06' Removable
CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) *
        1,2,0   102) *
        1,3,0   103) *
        1,4,0   104) *
        1,5,0   105) *
        1,6,0   106) *
        1,7,0   107) *

Hope this helps.

Cary

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:10, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 19:47, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > Try
> > hdparm -i /dev/scd0
> > to see what your drive is really set at.  Look for the * in 
> > the DMA or UDMA lines.
> > 
> > The device
> > /dev/sr0 and
> > /dev/scd0
> > are the same.  You might need to specify some options to 
> > cdrecord for your drive.
> > 
> > Try
> > cdrecord --checkdrive
> > to see what driver is recommended.  Since it is saying that 
> > it is turning BURN FREE off after starting with it on, you 
> > can specify for it to be off in your options.
> > 
> > cdrecord --help
> > will give all the options in a list.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > Dow
> > 
> 
> linux:/home/trey # hdparm -i /dev/scd0
> /dev/scd0 not supported by hdparm
> 
> Not sure what this next group means...I'm going through the help now. 
> This is usually setup 'out of the box' for Mandrake and earlier SUSE
> versions.  I don't see what the below info tells me about suggested
> options though:
> 
> linux:/home/trey # cdrecord --checkdrive
> cdrecord: No CD/DVD-Recorder device specified.
> Usage: cdrecord [options] track1...trackn
> 
> Use     cdrecord -help
> to get a list of valid options.
> 
> Use     cdrecord blank=help
> to get a list of valid blanking options.
> 
> Use     cdrecord dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive
> to get a list of drive specific options.
> 
> Use     cdrecord dev=help
> to get a list of possible SCSI transport specifiers.
> 
> 
> Thanks again for the help.
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