On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 08:09 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 21:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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Do an lsmod and see if you see sg, maybe sd_mod, scsi_mod, ide_cd. Look at /etc/modules.conf (I think that's it - thngs changed in the last decade or so).
scsi_mod 133069 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,usb_storage ide_cd 40033 0 cdrom 36705 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
(also a plain-old cdrom installed via IDE (internal) on this server).
And no such animal as a modules.conf anywhere on the system (per locate modules.conf)
modprobe*
Try just reading a cd first. Does the device have any king od "write protect" switch?
Will try the reading. No write protect switch. This CDRW was on a Win2000 system whose board started overheating and crashing. So it was working with Veritas just 2 weeks ago.
Use cdrecord with some verbosity flags to get some clues.
And I need clues to help me RTFM. Lot there ASSuMEing already knowing about SCSI and CD devices...
OK. CentOS 4.x or 5.x? I'll try to help if I can. Only diff would be the device reported. I don't have usb. But with cdrecord, only the low-level drivers would change. All the sg* interface stuff would be the same.
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Use cdrecord to print some of the header info of the blank disc you're trying to write. You'll need to RTFM - I don't have it in front of me ATM.
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It sound like you'll need to leave the comfy confines of the GUI room to solve this one.
Would if I could get more out of RTFM.
I'll try to help.
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