Your drive could need cleaning, or have worn out, or in some way have been disconnected. Those kind of drives have to be replaced every so often. If it's a usb drive, have you done a modprobe usbmass yet? If not, that may be all you need to get things going. If you read dmesg does the cd drive even show up as a valid device now? If not, maybe insmod usbmass will fix that and get you burning. On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Javier Vasquez wrote:
Hi,
I've been using the original cdrecord (cdrtools) for more than 10 years now, however I hadn't burned anything in the last 3 months (or even more). With the current linux kernel image from Arch:
% uname -a Linux jvasquez14 3.3.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 5 15:20:32 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I can't get cdrecord to recognize any cd/dvd writer, not the laptop one neither an external USB one... I might be mistaken, but with 3.0 image I believe things worked (can't be sure, as I said I haven't been burning anything for months).
When I try to identify the cd/dvd writers:
% cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a07 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Joerg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
I looked through google, but the responses I get are pretty old, some from 2004, talking about early 2.6 kernels... I found one page (an old one as well) that suggests using ide-scsi emulation, but that seems to me old as well:
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/media/cd/cd03-DeviceConfiguration/ar01s0...
Besides for quiet a while we don't get hdc or sdc, just plain sr0/sr1 (even the scd0/scd1 was removed), and that seemed to work before if I'm not mistaken... Perhaps now the way is "sr0=scsi"?
Any ways, maybe someone knows better, :-) I can try the boot loading thing, but before, I wanted to see if someone has experienced this, and there's a known work around.
Thanks,
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