On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Dorothy Gibson-Wilde wrote:
>
> Hi, I am trying to write cds using the cdrecord programme by
> Joerg Schilling (v1.6.1) downloaded from his ftp site
> ftp.fokus.gmd.de. My cd read-write drive is a Yamaha SCSI
> model CRW6416S series. This drive mounts successfully for
> reading as /dev/rz14c. I have tried calling the cdrecord
> using:
> # cdrecord -dummy -V speed=6 dev=0,14,0 /directory
> Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jrg Schilling
> scsidev: '0,14,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 14 lun: 0
> cdrecord: Bad file number. Cannot open SCSI driver.
>
> I've tried various things for the SCSIdev definition. Sorry
> I'm not a sys admin. Hopefully this is an easy question for
> someone.
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Thanks to Sean, 2xTom, Alan and Rob for their replies.
The correct device specification should have been
dev=1,6,0.
They also had the following list of suggestions:
use v1.8 of cdrecord
try cdrecord -scanbus (or similar)
try cdrecord -inq (this worked and was useful)
Thanks again, dgw
Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 18:33:58 NZDT