First off: Thank you to everyone for all the help & suggestions. They did lead to the answer.
The problem was: When MDK was loaded, it did not create the proper device files. The /dev/sg<n> device files were not there. (located this from the CD Writing HOW-TO (Thanks Lee Roberts for reminding me about that document!)) Creating them, and then re-running cdrecord -scanbus kicked things off, and it's working now. (whew). Thanks again! The drive is burning a Cd as I'm typing this. :) 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!!! > > -- > Ric Tibbetts > > Linux registration number: 55684 > If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to > http://counter.li.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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