You will need SCSI emulation support since your drive is an IDE drive. This may involve compiling the ide-scsi.o module in the kernel if you don't already have it.
Have a read of http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:30, Chris Barnes wrote: > I am also having troubles with my cdrw. I have never used it with Linux > before so i have absolutly no idea about what i'm doing. > > I have a Creative CD-RW 12-10-32x. > > dmesg says: > hda: IBM-DHEA-38451, ATA DISK drive > hdc: CREATIVE CD-RW RW1210E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/472KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33) > hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > > /sbin/lsmod shows no scsi modules loaded so i do /sbin/modprobe scsi_mod > no errors. > > /sbin/lsmod shows: > Module Size Used by > scsi_mod 91072 0 > > dmesg now shows: > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > > /usr/bin/cdrecord -scanbus shows: > 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. > > /sbin/lsmod now shows: > Module Size Used by > sg 28624 0 (autoclean) (unused) > scsi_mod 91072 1 [sg] > > i dont know what I should be doing. Can anyone help? -- Regards, Ian Su SIRCA (Securities Industry Research Centre of Asia-Pacific) Tel: 8374-5078 Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
