cdrecord problems (was Fedora Core 2 Problems)

[Jeff Vian]

James Baker wrote:

> As I mentioned earlier, when I installed Core 2 (I did a fresh 
> install, not an upgrade; previously I was running RH9), I immediately 
> ran into problems with my mouse, my terminal, and with cdrecord.  I 
> still have the first two problems, but right now I'm working the 
> cdrecord issue.  First note that I have no IDE or USB peripherals in 
> my computer; I have an Adaptec SCSI controller card and a hard drive, 
> a read-only cd drive, and a read/write cd drive, all SCSI.
>
> With Redhat 9 and earlier, when I simply ran (as root) "cdrecord 
> -scanbus" I would get a listing of the all the active devices on the 
> SCSI bus. On my computer (with RH9) it looks something like this (I 
> would have to reinstall RH9 to tell you exactly):
>
> [root at orion]# cdrecord -scanbus
> scsibus0:
>        0,0,0     0) *
>        0,1,0     1) *
>        0,2,0     2) 'IBM     ' 'DDYS-T18350N    ' 'S96H' Disk
>        0,3,0     3) 'NEC     ' 'CD-ROM DRIVE:466' '1.26' Removable CD-ROM
>        0,4,0     4) 'HP      ' 'CD-Writer+ 9200 ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM
>        0,5,0     5) *
>        0,6,0     6) *
>        0,7,0     7) *
>
>
>
> (Hopefully the E-mail won't screw up the formatting of the above) My 
> best guess is that when they altered cdrecord to change it from the 
> dev=0,4,0 format to the dev=/dev/scd0 format, they lost the scanbus 
> functionality.  As you'll see below, with Core 2 you can scan for a 
> particular device IF you know what that device is, but the whole point 
> of scanbus is that it scanned ALL SCSI devices (and multiple SCSI 
> busses if you got 'em) and let you know what's out there and 
> working.   If anyone can confirm or deny these changes to cdrecord 
> please let me know.  Likewise, if you know of any syntax changes to 
> cdrecord that will allow it to perform a scanbus as it did with RH9 I 
> would appreciate it.
>
> TIA
>
>
> Here are four examples that I ran with Fedora Core 2.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [root at orion]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 
> Jvrg Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to 
> <warly at mandrakesoft.com>.
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in 
> this version.
> scsidev: 'ATA'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/hd*'. 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'.
>
>
> I love where it says "For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'" 
> when that's exactly the command I ran :).
>
Yep, and I note this is not the official release, and it says to not 
contact the author, but gives a contact of warly at mandrakesoft.com.  This 
appears to be possibly buggy due to the changes that are *not* made by 
the original author..