From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.12]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5Z5M-0001p4-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 19:11:44 -0400 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A5Z5G-0000Y7-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:11:38 -0700 Received: (qmail 13524 invoked by uid 1023); 3 Oct 2003 23:11:43 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:11:43 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Cdrecord won't work Message-ID: <20031003231143.GA13504@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20031003225004.GB1971@blackbox.hittsjunk.net> <000001c38a02$52bb9a60$fc54fea9@desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c38a02$52bb9a60$fc54fea9@desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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: 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