cdrecord cannot see DVD-RW with ATAPICAM

[John-Mark Gurney]

Zahemszky Gábor wrote this message on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:30 +0100:
> So the problem exists: how can it be, that "camcontrol devlist" shows an 
> ATAPICAM-generated "SCSI"-DVD-RW, but cdrecord couldn't see it with 
> "cdrecord -scanbus":
> 
> $ camcontrol devlist
> <YAMAHA CRW8824S 1.00>             at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (cd0,pass0)
> <IBM DCAS-34330W   !# S69D>        at scbus0 target 13 lun 0 (da0,pass1)
> <DEC RZ1CB-CA (C) DEC LYJ0>        at scbus0 target 15 lun 0 (da1,pass2)
> <TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B TS05>   at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (cd1,pass3)
					     ^        ^     ^
> $ cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg 
> Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> scsibus0:
>         0,0,0     0) *
>         0,1,0     1) *
>         0,2,0     2) *
>         0,3,0     3) *
>         0,4,0     4) 'YAMAHA  ' 'CRW8824S        ' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM
>         0,5,0     5) *
>         0,6,0     6) *
>         0,7,0     7) *

Not sure if you solved your problem yet..  the reason cdrecord doesn't
see your burner is that it's on the third scsi bus...

why don't you try:
cdrecord dev=2,0,0 -checkdrive

Though you'll probably want to d/l the ProDVD version of cdrecord to
be able to burn DVD's..


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