cdrecord not working the way expected

[Shantanoo Mahajan]

+++ michael johnson [freebsd] [10-09-06 11:16 -0400]:
| On 9/10/06, Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:
| >
| >anyone here sucessfully using cdrecord in freebsd?  -scanbus option gives
| >me
| >this error:
| >
| >[root at athena ~]# cdrecord -scanbus
| >Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.1) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J?rg
| >Schilling
| >cdrecord: Error 0. Cannot open SCSI driver.
| >cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
| >cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
| >
| >i have a feeling that the reason my DVD-CDRW isnt working in xine is
| >probably
| >rooted in the same cause.  can anyone point me in the right direction
| >here?
| >
| >[root at athena ~]# dmesg |grep acd0
| >acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-4832K/OQKB> at ata0-master UDMA40
| >acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-4832K/OQKB> at ata0-master UDMA40
| >[root at athena ~]# uname -a
| >FreeBSD athena.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 30
| >13:08:08
| >CDT 2006     root at athena.dfwlp.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA  i386
| >
| >anything at all that can get me going on this would be much appricated!

# kldload atapicam
# chmod 666 /dev/pass0 /dev/xpt0 /dev/cd0
> k3b

Is what I generally use and it works for me. After you run 'kldload..'
check the dmesg output immediatly. You shoud be able to see some 'cd0'
or 'cd*'. 'dmesg | grep ^cd'


Shantanoo
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