Hi Raul. When I do demsg, it sayd cdrom: open failed. This is probably that there aren't any disks in either one of my Cd drives. Wonder if this is normal? ----- Original Message ----- From: Raul A. Gallegos <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: cdrecord question > After your box boots up type $ dmesg |more > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:36 PM > Subject: Re: cdrecord question > > > Hi Greg. You mean the kernel hardware detection messages? Where can I find > this output? Is it in /proc somewhere? I'll dig around for it. Also, when I > tried using /dev/sr0 cdrecord still reports a bad file descriptor, even > though the scsi emulation driver seems to have attached it as /dev/sr0. I > can still use the device with no problems by specifying the coordinates, > which is no big deal for me. I'm just wondering because it might affect me > sometime in the future. I just don't know yet. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:22 PM > Subject: Re: cdrecord question > > > > Yes, this is perfectly normal. To find out under what device name your > drive now is, just examine the dmesg output. > > Greg > > > > > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:02:32PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi Greg. Well I got it to work, but it doesn't work under /dev/sr0. It > still says bad file descriptor, but I can specify the dev by using 0,0,0 the > device coordinates. However, when I am blanking a Cd, it just sits on last > chance to quit, starting real write in one seconds. Is this normal to have > it sit like that while blanking? I can hear the drive working, so its > obviously doing something. Just asking this because I have never seen > cdrecord working, so I'm not sure on the normal status msgs. Thanks! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:40 PM > > > Subject: Re: cdrecord question > > > > > > > > > > When I had a regular cd-rom drive in addition to my burner in this > box, I didn't do scsi-emulation on it, just on my burner. However, a while > back, Kerry said that the regular cdrom drive should also be scsi-emulated. > So, it's your call I guess. When I had the regular cd-rom drive, the fact > that it wasn't ide-scsi emulated didn't cause any problems for me, although > I gathered from Kerry's posts that that may cause problems for others. > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:56:48PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > > > Hi Greg. I don't have to make my regular Cdrom emulated right? I can > just compile in atapi_cdrom support, tell the regular ide driver not to grab > the burner, and leave the scsi cdrom support for the cd writer. Is this > setup sort of what you are refering to? > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > > > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > > > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:50 PM > > > > > Subject: Re: cdrecord question > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, your drive is ide/atapi, but you're emulating it as ide-scsi. > This means that even though your drive is ide/atapi, your system now thinks > that it is a scsi drive. So, you need both scsi cd-rom support, and generic > scsi. > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:04:51PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > > > > > Hi. Ide_scsi=y CONFIG_SCSI=y. I don't see why I would need Scsi > Cdrom > > > > > > > support, because both my Cdrom and Cdrw drives are both > ide/atapi. > > > > > > > According to the Cd writing howto, I had to pass hdd=ide-scsi to > the scsi > > > > > > > emulation driver. As a result, my Cd burner appears as a device > in > > > > > > > /proc/scsi/scsi. However, cdrecord says that it can't open scsi > driver > > > > > > > when I > > > > > > > use /dev/sg0? I am currently only doing everything as root for > testing > > > > > > > purposes, then I'll deal with the users once I get it working. > Also, does > > > > > > > CONFIG_CHR_SG refer to generic scsi character devices, not scsi > Cdroms? > > > > > > > Thanks! On Sun, 5 May 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Igor. > > > > > > > > 1. Did you also make sure that your kernel has scsi emulation, > scsi, scsi cdrom, > > > > > > > > and generic scsi compiled in? I think the standard kernel with > redhat has these > > > > > > > > compiled in, but with debian you may have to recompile your > kernel. Don't know > > > > > > > > about other distros? > > > > > > > > 2. Check your permissions for sg0 or which ever generic device > matches. I don't > > > > > > > > remember if this was a problem for cdrecord, but it was a > problem for some > > > > > > > > programs that had me stumped for a while. If you can run it as > root but not as > > > > > > > > you, this may be the problem. > > > > > > > > 3. there are changes you have to make in order to run cdrecord > as a user instead > > > > > > > > of root. I don't have them right at hand but the needed > changes are shown in the > > > > > > > > cdrw howto. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You should be able to find what to use for the device by > running cdrecord > > > > > > > > -scanbus. For instance, when i use cdrecord, I do > > > > > > > > dev=0,0,0 > > > > > > > > as my cdrecorder is the first such device. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
