burner disappears after update kernel

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jun 21 16:21:15 UTC 2004



Marc Wijtkamp wrote:

>Sadly enough, dmesg says:
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>ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
>hdd: _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
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The above indicates hdc is a DVDROM and not a DVD burner

>but cdrecord tells:
>scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
>devname: '/dev/hdd'
>scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
>Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
>cdrecord: No such device or address. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'. Cannot open
>SCSI driver.
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>Suggestions are more than welcome... 
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cdrecord cannot open a dvd-rom device for burning.  It also indicates 
you tried to access /dev/hdd and not hdc.

Is /dev/hdd actually a dvd burner? or did you mean to use hdc?

If hdd is a dvd burner, what does dmesg say about hdd?


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>On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 15:40, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
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>>As shown by Anard's citation of FC2 releases notes, actually cdrecord
>>can be invoked this way:
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>>cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd ....
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>>That's the way my own backup BASH script invokes it everyday, and it
>>works. With FC 1, that script used the usual SCSI syntax (cdrecord
>>dev=0,1,0...), but when I installed FC 2, it stopped working, so, after
>>some hacking, it turned back to work using thie first syntax above.
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>>But please note the lines in cdrecord's output about this naming
>>convention...
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>>Best regards.
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>>On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:59, Marc wrote:
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>>>>You should access the burner with the IDE name convention, e.g.
>>>>"/dev/hdd". I understand that now IDE devices, although mapped to SCSI
>>>>devices, can be accessed with the usuale IDE naming convention. This
>>>>affects not only the kernel, but cdrecord too.
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>>>Does cdrecord supports dev=/dev/hdd or so ??  since a cdrecord -scanbus
>>>only shows the first and not both cdrom drives.
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>>>>Hope it helps.
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:24, Marc wrote:
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>>>>>When I use the updated 2.6.6 kernel (from the original 2.5 FC2 kernel)
>>>>>cdrecord is unable to find my cd burner (slave on the second IDE
>>>>>controller)
>>>>>I tried to add hdc=ide-scsi and hdd=ide-scsi to grub.conf but no
>>>>>difference
>>>>>
>>>>>Rebooting with the original 2.5 FC2 kernel solves the problem
>>>>>
>>>>>Any suggestions ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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