CD Writer recognition

mascarasnake yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
18 Oct 2003 04:29:48 -0400


On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 23:35, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 05:32 PM, mascarasnake wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:41, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> >> On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 04:03 PM, mascarasnake wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> At least until very recently, cdrecord didn't believe in ATAPI 
> >> writers.
> >> Another popular program still doesn't believe in ATAPI burners. The
> >> convention is to treat burners as SCSI devices.
> >>
> >> I don't understand how it is that  your install didn't map your burner
> >> as a SCSI device. Mine is mapped that way and I didn't doa nything
> >> special
> >
> > OK, how do I make this work?
> 
> Become root and run pdisk -l. Report the results.

This is the full pdisk listing:

------>This is my hfs standard "share" disk
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sda'
 #:                type name             length   base    ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            54 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            74 @ 118
 4:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh           512 @ 192
 5:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition     512 @ 704
 6:           Apple_HFS "stiffy"        2133072 @ 1216    (  1.0G)
 7:          Apple_Free Extra                 7 @ 2134288

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=2134304 (1.0G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1:  23 @ 64, type=0x1
2:  36 @ 118, type=0xffff

------>This is my boot disk (hfs+, Linux parts)
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hde'
 #:                type name               length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                  63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              54 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              74 @ 118
 4:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh             512 @ 192
 5:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition       512 @ 704
 6:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap               655360 @ 1216      (320.0M)
 7:           Apple_HFS "bobo"           20480000 @ 139265216 (  9.8G)
 8:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled        138608640 @ 656576    ( 66.1G)
 9:          Apple_Free Extra             1091264 @ 159745216 (532.8M)

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=160836479 (76.7G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1:  23 @ 64, type=0x1
2:  36 @ 118, type=0xffff

------>This is the TEAC W54E CD-RW Drive
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hdg'
 #:                type name                      length   base   ( size
)
 1: Apple_partition_map MRKS                           2 @ 1
 2:           Apple_HFS "PHOTODELUXE"             886880 @ 38    
(433.0M)

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=886918 (433.1M)
DeviceType=0x1, DeviceId=0x1

------>This is the Apple CD ROM
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scd0'
 #:                type name             length   base    ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            56 @ 64
 3:   Apple_Driver43_CD*Macintosh           120 @ 120
 4:          Apple_Void                       0 @ 0
 5:  Apple_Driver_ATAPI*Macintosh            56 @ 240
 6:  Apple_Driver_ATAPI*Macintosh           120 @ 296
 7:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition     512 @ 416
 8:          Apple_Void                       0 @ 0
 9:           Apple_HFS "Mac OS 9.1"    1309784 @ 928     (639.5M)
10:          Apple_Free                       8 @ 1310712

Device block size=2048, Number of Blocks=327680 (640.0M)
DeviceType=0x1, DeviceId=0x1
Drivers-
1:   5 @ 16, (20@64)  type=0x1
2:  25 @ 30, (100@120)  type=0xffff
3:   5 @ 60, (20@240)  type=0x701
4:  30 @ 74, (120@296)  type=0xf8ff