No /dev/sg*, arson doesn't see my burner

rizzo

Hullo.

arson doesn't see my burner, or any devices. My burner is IDE but I've done the whole scsi emulation deal. xcdroast sees the burner fine.

In searching for the truth I see other threads mentioning /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg1. I don't have any /dev/sg* items at all.

Side question: anyone know offhand if/how xcdroast can burn from bin/cue?

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

hi rizzo,

well, i don't know your systems configuration so i can't tell why there isn't a /dev/sg* on your machine. usually you gotta enable scsi emulation in the kernel and raw scsi support.

however, if xcdroast works you can use the bchunk tool (app-cdr/bchunk) to convert the bin/cue files into an regular iso file.

greets
rojaro
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pilla · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject:

See this document about SCSI emulation and CD-writting . See also ATAPI burning using xcdroast
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behindthesofa · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Netherlands

mine is at /dev/sr0. second question:

rizzo · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:59 pm Post subject:

Yes mine is at sr0 also. Does arson just refuse to look there?

behindthesofa · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Netherlands

can't you just create a link from /dev/sg0 to /dev/sr0?

greg_g · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 180

no no no... /dev/sr0 and /dev/sg0 are not the same thing. when you send bits through /dev/sr0 you're just viewing the cdrom as a normal filesystem, while /dev/sg0 let you send direct scsi commands (like "burn my cd").

/dev/sr0 appears when you do "modprobe sr_mod" (if compiled as a kernel module), /dev/sg0 appears when you "modprobe sg" (same thing)

they should point to /dev/scsi/something/.../cd /dev/scsi/something/.../generic

rizzo · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:27 pm Post subject:

OK so once again my boneheadedness shines through. I hadn't done the scsi emulation setup per the install document. I did that way on my work box and it works great, so I'm did the whole build-as-module thing for the ide-scsi emulation and am currently recompiling. I'm going to assume that that is the reason.

update Yes that was the problem. Arson sees the burner just fine.

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

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