CD Burning Why So Difficult?

[James McDonald]

David Bandel wrote:
> On 3/8/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
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> [snip]
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>> Thanks I thought that dev= had to be SCSI X,X,X parlance and when I ran
>> cdrecord -scanbus I got nothing returned to identify my drive which
>> incidentally is /dev/hdc..
>>     
>
> Been a long time since I said it:  RTFM.  You'll find instruction for
> running scanbus against IDE (hint, grep for ATA).  However, most of
> the more recent stuff allows you to do dev=/dev/hdc, but the older
> dev=ATA:1,0,0 also works.
>
>   
RTFM I did... in the form of man cdrecord and I don't see options to run 
scanbus over an ata bus

I wonder if this is one of those one where the totally incomprehensible 
info may work better?