[ale] Burning CDs

[Robert Heaven]

When I changed from RH to FC I had to change the "dev=" parameter in
cdrecord from "dev=b,t,l" to "dev=/dev/hdc". Under FC2/3 you must use
that naming convention to burn a CD.


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:09 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

> On Friday 08 April 2005 11:08 am, Robert Heaven wrote:
> | What device name are you using in the command line? (dev=/dev/hdc should
> | be correct for FC3)
> 
> I am not certain I understand the question.
> 
> As root, from a clean boot, I can mount the CD burner this way:
> root prompt} mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
> 
> footnote:  I shouldn't have to add the -t flag, but I do. Even though
> the matching line in fstab looks like this:
> 
> > /dev/hdc      /mnt/cdrom     iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> 
> Once mounted the drive works as a read-only device just fine.
> 
> Now I can mount the USB CD reader with essentially the same command,
> but without the -t flag: mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom1
> 
> Go figure.
> 
> I have come to the conclusion that the problem seems to be centered
> in the program cdrecord. Doesn't matter if I run it from the command
> line with the --scanbus option or try to run either xcdroast or the
> KDE app, (both of which immediately call cdrecord --scanbus).  Either
> way, the program hangs. Now I can issue a kill-9 [PID] for the GUI
> software and stop them, but cdrecord just sits there. I can't kill it.
> If I have started it from the command line, the shell becomes unusable
> as a prompt will not return.
> If, from the root prompt I run the command this way:
> 
> > /usr/bin/cdrecord dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive
> 
> (to get a list of drive specific options) I get this response, along
> with some useless data:  "Invalid argument. Invalid bus or target specifier 
> in 'b,t,l'. Cannot open SCSI driver."
> 
> So I am left wondering why can't cdrecord open the SCSI driver?
> checking the version of cdrecord, I get this: cdrecord-2.01.1-5
> As far as I know that is the most current version from RedHat, this
> being a FC3 system.
> 
> Sean
> 
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