Ric Tibbetts wrote: >Ok, now I'm frustrated. >I have a SCSI CD/RW (Yamaha). that has worked flawlessly for a long >time. A while back, I changed the distro on the box from RedHat, to >Mandrake 8.1. After that, my CD/RW won't work any more. it still >functions as a regular CDrom, but the writer errors out. >Cdrecord (and X-Cd-roast as well) return the error that it cannot detect >the drive. > >This thing has always worked in the past. Can some kind sole point me in >a direction to start looking as to why it died with MDK? > >Let me know what information you need, and I'll supply it. For starters, >it's a Yamaha SCSI CD/RW, it's an old faithful drive. And as I said, the >Cdrom part works great, it just won't write. If I try to run scanbus, I >get: > >#> cdrecord -scanbus >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. > >And it "used" to work! >Any suggestions on this? I've been digging through the archives for >others that have dropped off the radar with 8.1, but haven't found >anything yet. > >TIA!!! > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Type "/sbin/lsmod" and let me know what you get. If you do not see ide-scsi or any other type of scsi module then we have found your problem. Just simply add to lilo "hdc=ide-scsi" or what ever is the device for your cdrw and the appropriate scsi module and then all should be well. HTH
altoine
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