On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 12:56 -0400, Don Flinn wrote: > I was about to burn CDs for FD4 and discover that my CD drive was > unavailable. Further checking revealed that there is no cdrom in /media > nor in /mnt and checking /dev there is no cdrom. The CD drive was > available a few weeks ago. Now not even the CD Player can find the > drive, it gives Drive Error. > > The hardware browser doesn't find the CD Drive. > > Running cdrecord -scanbus gives the following: > [flinn@localhost ~]$ sudo cdrecord -scanbus > Password: > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg > 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 > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in > this version. > scsidev: 'ATA' > devname: 'ATA' > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > cdrecord: Invalid argument. SCSI unsupported with '/dev/hd*'. Cannot > open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. > cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. > > Do I have to create a device in /dev ? > > Any help would be appreciated. > Don > > > -- > Don Flinn > President, Flint Security LLC > Tel: 781-856-7230 > Fax: 781-631-7693 > e-mail: flinn@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://flintsecurity.com > Solved: I finally took the cover off my computer and made sure all the connections were tight, restarted and the CD drive was there. I'm sure the connections were tight, but I guess not. I did get to read a lot about cd drives, and the software associated with them, so all was not wasted. Don
