On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > I haven't done this yet, so this is only a guess, but 'cdrecord > dev=HELP:' indicates for an ATAPI: prefix that an appropriate target > syntax is ATAPI:bus,target,lun and it also says "Open via UNIX device: > not supported". Perhaps that man page is just outdated since your use > of /dev/hdb partially worked. But given your -scanbus output perhaps > using dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 would work better? i tried this, with no more success. at this point, i have to give up and pack up the system to go for a drive, but the latest test was spectacularly unsuccessful -- numerous "packet error" messages, along with some *very* unpleasant noises from the drive that i've never heard before. i'm starting to suspect the poor drive is just plain history. rday
