From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.secure-ssl-server.us ([212.17.38.11]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5ZdN-0002BG-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 19:46:53 -0400 Received: from desktop ([193.203.156.55]) by mail.secure-ssl-server.us (Merak 6.0.8) with ASMTP id FF8D6A80 for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:46:20 +0100 From: "Darragh" To: Subject: RE: Cdrecord won't work Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:46:03 +0100 Message-ID: <000001c38a08$84f5ab50$fc54fea9@desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20031003231143.GA13504@romuald.net.eu.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Oh lovely, any idea how I go about that? Why isn't anything straight forward? -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: 04 October 2003 00:12 To: speakup@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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup