From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=linserver.complex ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 174Win-0006X4-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 20:51:21 -0400 Received: (from gnowak1@localhost) by linserver.complex (8.11.4/8.10.2) id g460oe000193 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 5 May 2002 19:50:40 -0500 Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 19:50:40 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: cdrecord question Message-ID: <20020505195040.A190@uic.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from igueths@attbi.com on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:04:51PM -0400 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 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: 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@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup