this is for reference for those who
encounter similar problems.
even though the kernel module ide-scsi was loaded
I could not get
cdrecord -scanbus
to recognize the CDR until
I added the following to lilo.conf:
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
Anthony
so lilo.conf now looks like:
prompt
timeout=50
default=Mitel-SME-up
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/mitel.pcx
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7smp
label=Mitel-SME-smp
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.7smp.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7
label=Mitel-SME-up
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.7.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append="hdc=ide-scsi"