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 I am trying to copy some CDS and I see that cdrecord does not see my
drive.  can someone please tell me how to fix this in Redhat 7.0.

Thanks

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Before you buy.

If it's an ide cdrw, then a specially kernel module needs to be loaded
for cdrecord to see it.

I presume by "doesn't see it" you mean that "cdrecord -scanbus"
returns nothing ?

The name of the module that has to be loaded is ide-scsi.  See if you
can run the command "insmod ide-scsi" and then see if cdrecord
-scanbus detects it.

If that doesn't work, consult the more detailed instruction in the
CD-Writing HOWTO:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html

Go into the Quickstart section and look at the IDE instructions.

If it seems intimidating, consider that I recently installed Mandrake
7.1 on a machine with an IDE CDRW and I was delighted to discover that
it recognized the writer and configured everything for me, so I could
just go straight to work with cdrecord and XCDroast (I think I had to
recompile xcdroast).

--Rob

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smithj> cdrecord (CD software) does not see my HP8100 IDE CD-RW Drive.
smithj>  I am trying to copy some CDS and I see that cdrecord does not see my
smithj> drive.  can someone please tell me how to fix this in Redhat 7.0.
smithj>

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smithj> Thanks
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