My Final Solution for everyone's edification:
/etc/modules.conf
added 3 lines at the beginning of the file:
alias scd0 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
/etc/modules
added 2 lines to the end:
sr_mod
sg
/etc/fstab
added the entry:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto
codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,users,nodev 0 0
/dev/sg0 - deleted this link and re-created it pointing to the correct device for the
cd writer.
/etc/lilo.conf
append line:
append="mem=2048M devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi"
After running lilo and rebooting the system, cdrecord -scanbus was able to find the
cd writer and all "cdrom" accesses to /dev/scd0 work correctly.
Someone probably needs to archive this fix as I suspect that others will encounter the
same problem.
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