Cdrecord not working - please help!

[David Curry]

Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:

> David Curry wrote:
>
>> Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Storey wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:53:58 -0500
>>>> Steven Pasternak <stevenp500 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> I use FC2 kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and cdrecord 2.01.1-0.FC2.1 and cd
>>>>> burning WON'T WORK!! I have /usr/bin/cdrecord set to 4711 and 
>>>>> /dev/hdc
>>>>> set to 666 and no luck! the md5sum checks out, and even burning as
>>>>> root doesn't work! I went through 3 CD-Rs and all wasted. My burner
>>>>> has a light that is green when reading, yellow for something else (I
>>>>> think fixating) and red for burning. I have tried command line and
>>>>> k3b. It will "start writing", be red for 1-2 seconds, then switch 
>>>>> from
>>>>> yellow to green many times. I try to kill it, but 1. it wont die 
>>>>> 2. it
>>>>> won't let me open my cdrom (even with eject, which freezes). Finally,
>>>>> after a minute, it dies and gives me a worthless, dead,
>>>>> partially-written-on cd-r. cdrecord says that it couldn't fixate 
>>>>> disk.
>>>>> Could it be cdrecord, permissions, or the kernel itself? Thanks!
>>>>> -Steven
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear Steven,
>>>>
>>>> Don't know about FC2, but on FC3, you have to do...
>>>>
>>>> up2date udev
>>>>
>>>> ...to get it working properly.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> On FC2 that's irrelevant since the distro is not udev compliant.... 
>>> I'd strongly suggest updating your kernel to *at least* version 
>>> 2.6.7... FC2 was a bit jumpy on earlier versions of the kernel... 
>>> And also a fully updated systems is always recommended, since many 
>>> thing have been fixed since official release.
>>>
>> I'm also having difficulties with cdrecord on FC2, starting with 
>> 2.6.5 and continuing with the latest available kernel (2.6.10-1.9 [1 
>> think]).  Both CD drives on the system appear to work just fine in 
>> read mode.  There does seem to be some kind of conflict, though, in 
>> the device definitions on the system.  The same hardware running an 
>> RH 8 kernel saw the ide-scsi CD-RW drive as scsi:0.  On FC2 it is 
>> seen as scsi:1
>>
> You are using SCSI emulation on a 2.6.x kernel?!?! turn that off!!! 
> You should NOT use ide-scsi emulation on a 2.6.x kernel, the ATAPI 
> code is sufficient (ide-scsi was a horrible hack, anyway), plus 
> cdrecord and cdrdao are enough to record your disks with pure ATAPI 
> interface, since they are specifically tuned fo that in FC2+
>
You say to turn off SCSI emulation on a 2.6.x kernel.  How?