IDE CDRW not recognized in nautilus

scratch that - it was in fact for the IDE CDROM - it didn't work without the sg
module either

Hmm. I've never used SCSI generic for writing CDs, and when I tried it here
(Debian unstable), I couldn't make it work. What's the procedure?

Do you know of a way to write CDs to a SCSI writer without using sg devices? If
so, I'd like to hear about it. I use:

modprobe sg
cdrecord dev=/dev/sg# ...

For an IDE CD-ROM, you should use:
cdrecord dev=/dev/hdX ...

and *not* any kind of ide-scsi craziness

(In reply to comment #0)
> When you use a SCSI DVD/CD drive, the generic SCSI module isn't loaded, so that
> later on, if you want to rip a CD (or burn a CD), you're unable to do this until
> you load the module (most errors relating to this are vague at best, however, so
> it's hard to figure out)

On installing Ubuntu, Nautilus can't see my CDRW (it can see it as a cdrom, but it
knows nothing of a CDRW (it's an LG IDE 52x drive). Cdrecord -scanbus complains of
not seeing /dev/pg*. On doing a modprobe sg, things look a lot better, but i still
can't burn to disks with gtoaster, k3b and gcombust.

On further investigation, k3b will burn cds, but only as root. I've heard murmurs
that kernel 2.6.8 and later don't burn to disc unless you are root. Hope this is
just hearsay though. k3bsetup2 sees my two drives (1x DVD rom and 1x CDRW both IDE)
as 2 X CDROM drives. One is on /dev/hda and other is on /dev/hdc.

My processor is an AMD64, so I have tried this on Warty-64 and Warty-i386 but both
yield the same results.

Any answers, anyone?

So the real bug here seems to be that your CD-RW is not recognized as such. I
believe hal is responsible for this.

Please attach the output from "lshal" on your system

This bug has sit here as NEEDINFO for very long and did not see a submitter
reply for two months now. In the meantime we got a whole bunch of new Utopia
packages and for me everything works perfectly.

I'm closing this bug for now. If the bug still occurs on your system, feel free
to reopen it.

Thanks,

Martin