CD Burning Why So Difficult?

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

James McDonald a ?crit :
> David Bandel wrote:
>> On 3/8/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>   
>>> 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?

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wow ! I forgot a second that I was on linux-users mailing list and was
asking myself " do really someone dare have that kind of speech on
Ubuntu mailing list ? " (I was meaning the *RTFM* stuff ) so I realized
it wasn't ubuntu mailing :p .