On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10 June 2012 01:41, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been using the original cdrecord (cdrtools) for more than 10 >> years now, however I hadn't burned anything in the last 3 months (or >> even more). With the current linux kernel image from Arch: >> >> % uname -a >> Linux jvasquez14 3.3.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 5 15:20:32 CEST >> 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> I can't get cdrecord to recognize any cd/dvd writer, not the laptop >> one neither an external USB one... I might be mistaken, but with 3.0 >> image I believe things worked (can't be sure, as I said I haven't been >> burning anything for months). >> >> When I try to identify the cd/dvd writers: >> >> % cdrecord -scanbus >> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a07 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) >> Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Joerg Schilling >> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot >> open or use SCSI driver. >> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. >> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. >> >> I looked through google, but the responses I get are pretty old, some >> from 2004, talking about early 2.6 kernels... I found one page (an >> old one as well) that suggests using ide-scsi emulation, but that >> seems to me old as well: >> >> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/media/cd/cd03-DeviceConfiguration/ar01s06.html >> >> Besides for quiet a while we don't get hdc or sdc, just plain sr0/sr1 >> (even the scd0/scd1 was removed), and that seemed to work before if >> I'm not mistaken... Perhaps now the way is "sr0=scsi"? >> >> Any ways, maybe someone knows better, :-) I can try the boot loading >> thing, but before, I wanted to see if someone has experienced this, >> and there's a known work around. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Javier. > > Sure we know better :-) It is known problem that made it even to the > install file: > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/cdrtools.install?h=packages/cdrtools > > Maybe I should add it to post_upgrade() as well, so the loyal users of > this package get this warning too. Or better – try to find why this > module is no longer loaded. > > Lukas Shame on me, :-) Thanks a lot, that was it, now "-scanbus" works as usual... I'll add "sg" to the MODULES list, so I don't have to remember... Thanks again, -- Javier.
