Hi, May be this is werth a try: If cdrecord -scanbus now works, you should see your drive. My cdrecord is working when i use=20 cdrecord -dev=3D0,0,0 --data x.iso hth Willem On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > I made a lot of progress and what I found may help some > people so here it is as briefly as I can make it. >=20 > First, I will sound like a politician here and say that > everybody was right to some extent on configuring SCSI emulation > in the kernel. My big mistake was in compiling in SCSI disk > support. This killed the CDROM SCSI emulation. When I took out > the SCSI disk support, the SCSI channel appeared. >=20 > I still had terrible problems with cdda2wav and > cdparanoia and they both did the same thing. >=20 > Both tried to work using /dev/scd0 as the scsi device, > but the system groaned and sputtered and the audio was full of a > wraspy sound which was basically a break in the sound about 75 > times per second. This is the sector rate, but you shouldn't > hear it. I ran cdparanoia for 20 or 30 minutes once and it > didn't even rip one song completely. >=20 > Since I now had SCSI emulation, I decided to install the > Plextor CDRW drive. I guess the other drive is simply not > capable of CDDA playback because the system now can download an > entire CD in 7 minutes flawlessly with perfect audio just like it > is supposed to. >=20 > Both cdda2wav and cdparanoia now seem to work perfectly > but I seem to still be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. >=20 > It was time to burn a CDRW disk with a file system so I > put in a brand new CDRW which was included with the drive as a > sample. > I got mkisofs to produce a mountable image so the last step was > to feed that to cdrecord. I used the following command. >=20 > mkisofs -l -R -q /home/martin |cdrecord -dev=3D/dev/scd0:0,0 -dummy - >=20 > I held my breath and got the following error which was > the first error I had seen using the new drive: >=20 > cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD/DVD-Recorder. > cdrecord: Success. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error > Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J=F6rg Schilli= ng > scsidev: '/dev/scd0:0,0' > devname: '/dev/scd0' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' > CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 > cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s >=20 > The order of the output lines from cdrecord is a little > different than they normally display, but I captured standard > error and standard output and they don't arrive at the same time. > If I use cdparanoia and test the drive, I get good output >=20 > cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13, 1999) > (C) 1999 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus >=20 > Checking /dev/sg0 for cdrom... > Testing /dev/sg0 for cooked ioctl() interface > /dev/sg0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/sg0 for SCSI interface > generic device: /dev/sg0 > ioctl device: /dev/scd0 > CDROM sensed: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A 1.08=20 >=20 > Checking for SCSI emulation and transport revision... > Drive is ATAPI (using SCSI host adaptor emulation) >=20 > Checking for MMC style command set... > Drive is MMC style > 004: Unable to read table of contents header >=20 > Unable to open disc. Is there an audio CD in the drive? >=20 > That last part about the audio CD is due to there being > the new CDRW which had not yet been recorded yet. If I put an > audio CD in, it reads the table of contents just fine. >=20 > Has anybody any ideas as to what this last nasty problem > is? >=20 > By the way, if you compile the SCSI emulation support in > to the kernel, the append statements in lilo.conf don't seem to > do anything. That probably is necessary to make the module load, > but I tried it with and without and nothing changed. >=20 > Thanks to Janina and all for your good suggestions. You > have kept me beating my head on this brick wall until I have made > a dent at least. I'm still not all the way through, yet. > Martin McCormick >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >=20