Never mind, I think I fixed it. Had to pass 'hdd=ide-scsi' to the kernel in grub, then cdrecord -scanbus worked. Before passing the ide-scsi parameter I tried 'cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI' and that showed the CD Writer, too. I've already burned a good test CD. Bob On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 13:28, Robert L Cochran wrote: > While running cdrecord -scanbus (yes, as root) to locate my HP > CD-Writer, I got this result: > > Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open > SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you > are root. > cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. > > > The HP device is /dev/hdd and is actually set up as the slave device to > an Asus DVD-ROM drive. > > How can I get 'cdrecord -scanbus' (and therefore cdrecord) to work? > > Thanks a lot > > Bob Cochran > Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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