Cdrecord -scanbus problem...

[Eric Pogroski]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:49:04 -0600
"Schroeder, AJ" <Aaron.Schroeder at qg.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I just recently upgraded my system to 5.2-RELEASE, as evidenced by uname -a:
> 
> FreeBSD mephisto.qg.com 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 27
> 16:05:26 CST 2004     root at mephisto.qg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEPHISTO
> i386
> 
> I was able to burn CDs in my previous installation, but now I am getting
> nothing but trouble with cdrecord whenever I try to execute it, so I decided
> to try scanning the bus, and here is my output:
> 
> [root at mephisto root]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2002
> J\x{FFFF}rg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
> [root at mephisto root]#
> 
> I looked in /dev and I saw all the devices defined that I needed, like: 
> 
> crw-r-----   1 root      operator    4,  18 Jan 27 16:58 acd0
> crw-r-----   1 root      operator    4,  19 Jan 27 16:58 acd1
> 
> Cdrecord is installed along with xcdroast and other gui front-end apps, all
> of them fail. Both of the drives are good because I can mount CDs in them. I
> am also attaching a copy of my /var/run/dmesg.boot and a copy of my kernel
> config in case I did something wrong there.
> 
> Any help on this matter would be appreciated greatly, also, please cc me, I
> am not a part of this list.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> AJ Schroeder
> 
su to root then use cdrecord scanbus
or
add yourself to the wheel group, then do 'sudo cdrecord scanbus' 
or
(most unsecure option) su to root, chmod +s /usr/local/bin/cdrecord,
exit root, cdrecord is now usable by 'regular' user's.

Eric