cdrdao and other burners show an error

[Yosuke_]

Hi!
I can't seem to get my CD-Butner to work on Slackware. When I run cdrdao I get this:
root@Slackware:~# cdrdao blank
Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty

Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.

ERROR: Cannot open "/dev/cdrecorder": No such file or directory
ERROR: Cannot open SCSI device '/dev/cdrecorder':
ERROR: Please use option '--device bus,id,lun', e.g. --device 0,6,0
ERROR: Cannot setup device /dev/cdrecorder.

end when I run cdrecord I get this:
cdrecord: No CD/DVD-Recorder device specified.
Usage: cdrecord [options] track1...trackn

Use cdrecord -help
to get a list of valid options.

Use cdrecord blank=help
to get a list of valid blanking options.

Use cdrecord dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive
to get a list of drive specific options.

Use cdrecord dev=help
to get a list of possible SCSI transport specifiers

How can I make my CD-Burner to work, so burning software's will detect it!? Thank you!

[Choozo]

What does cdrecord -scanbus return?
It should give you the device, e.g. 0,0,0

[Yosuke_]

root@Slackware:~# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

[Choozo]

Looks like SCSI emulation is missing?

As root: lsmod | grep scsi

[Yosuke_]

root@Slackware:~# lsmod | grep scsi
ide-scsi 9424 0

[Choozo]

Any cdburner HOW-TO in the Slack documents?
Are the ide-scsi module appended to any /dev/hd[x] in Grub/Lilo conf?
(Man, this is just like pulling teeth )

[Icarus]

What kernel? There are known problems with cdrecord and the 2.6.8.1 kernel

Using a 2.6 kernel with an IDE burner you need to use it like this to use scanbus

cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI

what's the output of that?

Of course if you are using a 2.6.8.1 kernel, do this as root (cdrecord works fine still for root)

[Yosuke_]

root@Slackware:~# cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: 'ATAPI'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8525B ' '1.03' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

And kernel version 2.4

[Icarus]

Ok, this has me thinking now

When I try cdrdao blank as a user (2.6.8.1 kernel) I get the Cannot open '/dev/cdrecorder' error
same error as root, so you need to specify where the burner is

so for me, I need to run it like this
cdrdao blank --device /dev/hdc

for the 2.4 kernel, it may also work as long as you are using at least version 1.1.8 ("cdrdao show-toc" and check the version) as ATAPI support was not available with cdrdao until this release.

You may also want to try enabling ide-scsi (even though it is depreciated and ATAPI should work without it) by adding ide-scsi=hdc at the end of the kernel line in GRUB or LILO (I think LILO needs append=ide-scsi=hdc) but try the device switch first...

[Yosuke_]

Well, I have version 1.1.7, but I will download the new one and then try it out! Thanx!

[Yosuke_]

OK, I downloaded version 1.1.9, but it still doesn't work, so I did as you say:

root@Slackware:/home/kristian# cdrdao blank --device /dev/cdrom

ERROR: Cannot open SCSI device '/dev/cdrom': Cannot open '/dev/cdrom'
Supported SCSI transports for this platform:

Transport name: sg
Transport descr.: Generic transport independent SCSI
Transp. layer ind.:
Target specifier: bus,target,lun
Target example: 1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning: supported
Open via UNIX device: not supported

Transport name: pg
Transport descr.: SCSI transport for ATAPI over Parallel Port
Transp. layer ind.:
Target specifier: bus,target,lun
Target example: 1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning: supported
Open via UNIX device: not supported

Transport name: ATA
Transport descr.: ATA Packet specific SCSI transport
Transp. layer ind.: ATAPI:
Target specifier: bus,target,lun
Target example: ATAPI:1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning: supported
Open via UNIX device: not supported

Transport name: ATA
Transport descr.: ATA Packet specific SCSI transport using sg interface
Transp. layer ind.: ATA:
Target specifier: bus,target,lun
Target example: 1,2,0
SCSI Bus scanning: supported
Open via UNIX device: not supported
ERROR: Please use option '--device [proto:]bus,id,lun', e.g. --device 0,6,0 or --device ATAPI:0,0,0
ERROR: Cannot setup device /dev/cdrom.

I allso try'd root@Slackware:/home/kristian# cdrdao blank --device /dev/hdc, but still nothing!

[Yosuke_]

Could someone please help me?

[Choozo]

As Icarus mentioned; What is your kernel version?

[Yosuke_]

I allready sad 2.4. Thanx!

[Hayl]

if it is a 2.4.x kernel, then you need to use SCSI emulation.

there are many threads on this forum already... explaining what kernel modules must be loaded for scsi emulation to work and/or www.google.com/linux.