> > I have an internal IDE CDRW. > Alright there might still be hope there! > > cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info > -bash: hdc.info: No such file or directory > Did you try the command exactly as it is this little '>' between the '*' and hdc.info is very crutial. It tells bash to redirect all the output of the 'cat' command to the file ./hdc.info (where './' means your current directory). So after running the command as root this file should be created! > so i went into proc/ide/hdc and these were the contents > > capacity driver identify media model settings > I want the contents of those files. So either you do a manual 'cat capacity' and 'cat identify' can 'cat media' and 'cat model' etc etc etc or you give the above command that will expand to exactly that! So to recapitulate if your drive is internal what to you have on USB? Apparently the 'sg' module and 'scsi_mod' treat that something as a SCSI storage device. So after posting the above post the result of ls -l /dev/cdrom so I can see where your /dev/cdrom points to. F.
