Oh lovely, any idea how I go about that? Why isn't anything straight forward? -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: 04 October 2003 00:12 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Cdrecord won't work Yes, cdrecord is only for scsi devices. Having said that, if you have an ide drive, you will need to have ide-scsi emulation support in your kernel, so that your ide drive will be emulated as a scsi drive for use with cdrecord. Greg On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:01:42AM +0100, Darragh wrote: > Hello. > Now I know this is probably a really stupid question but I'm going to > ask any way. > > Is cdrecord only for SCSI devices? Everything there seems to point to > scsi. > > I'm having a problem. It keeps telling me that it cant open the scsi > drive. Then it tells me to run the cdrecord -scanbus program but > that's the program that I've run in the first place. The output from > the program is below. > > Cdrecord 1.10 1686-pc-linux-gnu Copyright C 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory, Cannot open scsi drive, cdrecord: > for possible targets try cdrecord -scanbus, make sure you are root > > Any help appreciated > > Darragh > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
