Hi, If cdrecord -scanbus does not show one the scsi devices, but the message to run cdrecord -scanbus, in my experience, it does not pick up the cdwriter. I had this under kernel 2.2 and the reasons was one of the following: The ide cdrom driver loded and grabed the cdwriter as an ide device and saw it as a cdrom. To prevent this from happening one puts a statment in lilo.conf like: append="hdc=ide-scsi" after the root=/dev/hd5 or what ever. If that allone did not work i used to do: modprobe ide-scsi before i ran cdrecord -scanbus. hth Willem On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Martin McCormick wrote: > When I give the command > mkisofs -l -R -q /home/martin/dsp |cdrecord -dev=/dev/scd0 -dummy - > I get > > scsidev: '/dev/scd0' > devname: '/dev/scd0' > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/scd0'. > Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling > > If you do run cdrecord -scanbus, it tells you to run > cdrecord -scanbus for possible targets. How special! And, yes, > I was root when I ran those commands. > > The messages that give a minus 2 for the target and LUN > ar the last useful messages. I think all the rest are just > attempts by cdrecord to make sense of the situation and be > helpful. > > If I try one of the syntax suggestions of just the target > and the LUN as in 0,0 instead of 0,0,0, I start getting my old > familiar /dev/pg0 routine again. > > I did check in to a couple of other possibilities which, > like many long shots, turned out to be dead ends. I put in > parallel printer support with no change and also checked on the > parallel IDE kernel support which is so far off the mark that it > can't possibly be the reason for this problem. > > The other system I have access to that works does not > have a /dev/pg0 and doesn't seem to need it. > > > "Willem van der Walt<vdwaltw@health.gov.za>" writes: > >Hi, > >What does some thing like > >eject /dev/scd0 > >produce? Does it open the drive or complain about the device? > >That 0,0,0 should also be known to the system as /dev/scd0 > >regards, Willem > > > > > >-- > >Willem van der Walt > >Information Services Directorate > >Department of Health > >South Africa > >tel: 27 12 3120700 > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Willem van der Walt Information Services Directorate Department of Health South Africa tel: 27 12 3120700 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list