argh! 'cdrecord --scanbus' hangs - "The drive appears confused"???

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Aug 15 16:30:21 UTC 2004


Sy Beamont writes:

> After upgrading to FC2 I tried k3b and then xcdroast which would hang 
> when scanning for SCSI devices - finally narrowed it down to and 
> scanning of the bus - 
> 
> $ cdrecord --scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 
> ...snip..
> scsidev: 'ATA'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> <... nothing happens. ever....>

FC2 cdrecord doesn't really know anything about ATAPI devices, unless you 
explicitly specify dev=/dev/hdX, and then it still whines about it.

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