I have an HP CD-Writer 9200 external SCSI CD-Writer. This CD R/W drive is recognized by the system (on /mnt/cdrom2) and I can read successfully from the drive.
However, none of the CD-ROM burning utilities (X-CD-Roast, GCombust, Gnome-Toaster) are able to write to the drive. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on a PII/400, 256MB RAM, 1 IDE hard drive, 3 SCSI hard drives, 1 ATAPI CD-ROM (read only), 1 SCSI CD R/W. I can read from both CDROMs and read/write to every hard drive so kernel support for SCSI is enabled. When run as root, X-CD-Roast starts with the error message "Failed to scan the SCSI-bus. Either no permission to access the generic scsi devices or no SCSI support enabled in the kernel. For ATAPI devices you have to install the SCSI emulation first." At the command line and as root, cdrecord --scanbus gives the following Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. I tried (briefly) manually configuring cdrecord (via /etc/default/cdrecord) but I'm not yet exactly sure what I'm doing. While running this same system on Mandrake 8.0, this drive was recognized and configured auto-magically. Do I need to change some mystery permissions to allow access to the generic SCSI devices? Using google newsgroup searches I've noticed some other people having this same problem on Mandrake 8.1 (able to read but unable to write to CDR/W device). Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Tom ___________________________________________________________________________ Visit http://www.visto.com. Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the enterprise with Visto.
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