Re: Sony cd writer problem (Martin)

["L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net>]

A few hints:
On our systems here, we have:
ls -l /dev/cdrom                 
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Feb 28  2001 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0
for our CD-RWs

Also from ... doc/cdrtools-cdrecord-1.10/README.ATAPI:
   5.  In the /etc/lilo.conf file add an append line for ide-scsi, in
   my case:
        append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

And from ... doc/cdrtools-cdrecord-1.10/README.linux:
   -       Linux driver design oddities ******************************************
        Although cdrecord supports to use dev=/dev/sgc, it is not recommended
        and it is unsupported.

        The /dev/sg* device mapping in Linux is not stable! Using dev=/dev/sgc
        in a shell script may fail after a reboot because the device you want
        to talk to has moved to /dev/sgd. For the proper and OS independent
        dev=<bus>,<tgt>,<lun> syntax read the man page of cdrecord.

Hope that helps, LCR

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Martin McCormick wrote:

> "Willem van der Walt<vdwaltw@health.gov.za>" writes:
> >What does some thing like 

> >produce? Does it open the drive or complain about the device?
> 
> 	Actually, neither.  It complains about the eject command.
> 
> 	/dev/scd0 is known by the system and works fine at least
> when I am mounting a CDROM for reading.
> 
> 	Before using the SCSI emulation, this device was
> /dev/cdrom so that behavior is exactly as it should be.
> 
> 	This is the darndest problem I have come across yet.  If
> I type
> 
> mount /dev/scd0 /mnt
> 
> I can read the disk as if it was a SCSI device.  I don't know
> what else to try.
> 
> 	By the way, my utmost thanks to everybody who has had a
> suggestion.  I think I have either done something very odd in the
> setup or kernel building process or we have a bug of some kind.
> This just doesn't add up.

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