On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 22:04, Jeff Vian wrote: > Paulus Tamba wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Don Levey wrote: > > | OK, I know it's probably a silly question, but here goes: > > | How can I determine which device is my CD burner? > > | I'm trying to use k3b, gnometoaster, or xcdroast. None of them seem to > > | recognise that I've got a burner in the machine. I'm sure there's a > > | simple command to find this, but I don't know what it is. > > | > > | TIA, > > | -Don > > | > > If you are on FC1 or one of the earlier RH distros, the cd burner should > be running under the ide-scsi module. > > use lsmod to see if ide-scsi is loaded. > Yep, I'm on FC1, with a compiled 2.6.3 kernel. The ide-scsi is in fact loaded. I'm not quite sure what I changed, but I can occasionally see the device in random programs. It seems to be identified as /dev/sd0 or /dev/scd0. > If it is, see what it is called. " dmesg | grep sd " (it should be sd0 > or sd1 depending on whether you have one or more devices running under > ide-scsi, or if you are running other scsi devices as well). > Or use dmesg and view the output or view /var/log/message to see what > the system identified it as. > The problem seems to be the following error: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - discarding data This seems to be a problem with the setup of the drive, though until I tried burning CDs it was working OK. It's a Samsung, per cdrecord -scanbus: scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-352B' 'T807' Removable CD-ROM I'm not doing well at the moment (killer cold) so I'll search more on that error tomorrow. > Then xcdroast should see it automatically, or you can use "cdrecord > -scanbus" to identify the exact device for use. > > If the module ide-scsi is not loaded then the burners won't see it. > > Thanks for the help, -Don
