Didn’t notice until now that my CD-RW/DVD player wasn’t loading properly – you can tell how much I use it, eh? ;-)

I’d already built the kernel with the correct SCSI modules (see references, below).
I’d also already added “hdc=ide-scsi” to my grub boot parameters.

What was left was the following:

/etc/devfsd.conf:

  1. uncommented: # Give the cdrw group write permissions to /dev/sg0 # This is done to have non root user use the burner (scan the scsi bus) REGISTER ^scsi/host.*/bus.*/target.*/lun.*/generic PERMISSIONS root.cdrw 660
  2. commented out: # Create /dev/cdrom for the first cdrom drive #LOOKUP ^cdrom$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink cdroms/cdrom0 cdrom #REGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrom #UNREGISTER ^cdroms/cdrom0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrom
  3. uncommented the following: # Create /dev/cdrw for the first cdrom on the scsi bus # (change ‘sr0’ to suite your setup) LOOKUP ^cdrw$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink sr0 cdrw REGISTER ^sr0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrw UNREGISTER ^sr0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrw

    Result:

    # cdrecord -scanbus
    Cdrecord 2.01a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright© 1995-2003 J�rg Schilling
    Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
    Using libscg version ‘schily-0.7’
    scsibus0:

    0,0,0 0) ‘MATSHITA’ ‘UJDA720 DVD/CDRW’ ‘1.03’ Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) *

    YAY! :-)

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