I found the following link that gave me the right clue: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/159965
Basically the answer was to download cdrecord and xcdroast from their respective web sites, and re-compile them locally.
At least they now recognize my dvd/cdrw as a cd writer.
-- Russell
Russell East wrote:
My Compaq Evo N800c laptop has a Toshiba SD-R2102 DVD/CDRW drive.
After installing Fedora Core 1 (with recent updates) xcdroast detects the drive as a reader only.
In the grub.conf, there is an "hdc=ide-scsi" option, and /dev/cdrom points to /dev/scd0.
If I remove the above option from grub.conf, then reboot, /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc again,
and, xcdroast detects the device as a writer. But it also notes that it is an atapi device and
recommends against using it.
I also use "acpi=on" within grub.conf, since this is necessary for the Evo, it has only ACPI and no APM.
Dunno if that makes a difference?
Anyone have some clues why this might be happening?
`uname -a` displays this:
Linux gumnut 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
-- Russell
