Where is my CD-R?

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Mar 9 13:17:12 UTC 2004


Don Levey wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 22:04, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>Paulus Tamba wrote:
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>>>Don Levey wrote:
>>>| OK, I know it's probably a silly question, but here goes:
>>>| How can I determine which device is my CD burner?
>>>| I'm trying to use k3b, gnometoaster, or xcdroast.  None of them seem to
>>>| recognise that I've got a burner in the machine.  I'm sure there's a
>>>| simple command to find this, but I don't know what it is.
>>>|
>>>| TIA,
>>>|  -Don
>>>|
>>>      
>>>
>>If you are on FC1 or one of the earlier RH distros, the cd burner should 
>>be running under the ide-scsi module.
>>
>>use lsmod to see if ide-scsi is loaded.
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>Yep, I'm on FC1, with a compiled 2.6.3 kernel.  The ide-scsi is in fact
>loaded.  I'm not quite sure what I changed, but I can occasionally see
>the device in random programs.  It seems to be identified as /dev/sd0 or
>/dev/scd0.
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>
You initially indicated FC1 and did not specify  the 2.6.3 kernel (id 
initialy has the 2.4.22 kernel)
Other responses have given information on using cdrecord with the 2.6 
kernels.






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