James Baker wrote:
As I mentioned earlier, when I installed Core 2 (I did a fresh
install, not an upgrade; previously I was running RH9), I immediately
ran into problems with my mouse, my terminal, and with cdrecord. I
still have the first two problems, but right now I'm working the
cdrecord issue. First note that I have no IDE or USB peripherals in
my computer; I have an Adaptec SCSI controller card and a hard drive,
a read-only cd drive, and a read/write cd drive, all SCSI.
With Redhat 9 and earlier, when I simply ran (as root) "cdrecord
-scanbus" I would get a listing of the all the active devices on the
SCSI bus. On my computer (with RH9) it looks something like this (I
would have to reinstall RH9 to tell you exactly):
[root@orion]# cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) 'IBM ' 'DDYS-T18350N ' 'S96H' Disk
0,3,0 3) 'NEC ' 'CD-ROM DRIVE:466' '1.26' Removable CD-ROM
0,4,0 4) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9200 ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
(Hopefully the E-mail won't screw up the formatting of the above) My
best guess is that when they altered cdrecord to change it from the
dev=0,4,0 format to the dev=/dev/scd0 format, they lost the scanbus
functionality. As you'll see below, with Core 2 you can scan for a
particular device IF you know what that device is, but the whole point
of scanbus is that it scanned ALL SCSI devices (and multiple SCSI
busses if you got 'em) and let you know what's out there and
working. If anyone can confirm or deny these changes to cdrecord
please let me know. Likewise, if you know of any syntax changes to
cdrecord that will allow it to perform a scanbus as it did with RH9 I
would appreciate it.
TIA
Here are four examples that I ran with Fedora Core 2.
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[root@orion]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004
Jvrg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
<warly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/hd*'. Cannot
open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
I love where it says "For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'"
when that's exactly the command I ran :).
Yep, and I note this is not the official release, and it says to not
contact the author, but gives a contact of warly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This
appears to be possibly buggy due to the changes that are *not* made by
the original author..
