Topic: cant get burner to work

[darren]

installed 5.6 on a new machine i had 5.5 on installed all updates then
i noticed the cdrom didn't work pointed to /dev/scd0 had to repoint it back to /dev/hdd .
then followed the instuctions to install the burner, rebooted and the cdrom is still set as /dev/hdd and not /dev/scd0 or scd1.
any ideas.

and yes i did repoint the cdrom to /dev/scd0 when i was testing.
i did a cdrecord -scanbus and all i got was
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

looks like a driver is missing( i did the standard install)

any help would be good ( is this a fault with 5.6 cause it worked in 5.5)

Darren

[kees blokland]

Don't think there is an error in 5.6 Darren,

But without log files, nobody will be able to guess what's goin on.
Include the relevant portions of the /var/log/messsages file.
(where it detects the drives)
I've done numerous cd-writer install's, scsi/ide/old/new. Every drive  'just worked'. There is no need to install anything extra. Everything needed is already in 5.6, unless you have some really obscure hardware..

[darren]

forget about it i reinstalled the sme 5.6 again with the burner actually in the machine and it worked fine and i just watched the cdrecord -scanbus to see if any changes happened.

the reason I didn't have the burner in at first is the install was causing problems yesterday so I had removed all unnecessary devices. then i updated the system pluged the burner in and it would only word on hdd.
Dont know what the problem was but it all works now.