making boot CDs on OSR5.7 (on HP Proliant 350)

When I run mkdev fd and chose option "5", for CD and then option "3"
for root and boot, the boot and root images are made ok. Then
Cdrecord is run and I get the following :

Insert a writable CD into drive /dev/rcd1
Press <RETURN> to continue or q to quit:
Size of boot image is 5760 sectors -> Emulating a 2880 kB floppy
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 335
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 4000
1617 extents written (3 MB)
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Assuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive
dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01 (i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.7) Copyright (C)
1995-2004 Jörg S
chilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: -1
cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD/DVD-Recorder.
cdrecord: Unknown error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s

I have run "cdrecord -scanbus" and updated /etc/default/cdrecord per
TA# 126107.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

wabky typed (on Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:19:49PM -0700):
| When I run mkdev fd and chose option "5", for CD and then option "3"
| for root and boot, the boot and root images are made ok. Then
| Cdrecord is run and I get the following :
|
| Insert a writable CD into drive /dev/rcd1
| Press <RETURN> to continue or q to quit:
| Size of boot image is 5760 sectors -> Emulating a 2880 kB floppy
| Total translation table size: 2048
| Total rockridge attributes bytes: 335
| Total directory bytes: 0
| Path table size(bytes): 10
| Max brk space used 4000
| 1617 extents written (3 MB)
| cdrecord: No write mode specified.
| cdrecord: Assuming -tao mode.
| cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive
| dependent defaults.
| cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
| Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01 (i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.7) Copyright (C)
| 1995-2004 Jörg S
| chilling
| TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
| scsidev: '1,0,0'
| scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
| Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
| SCSI buffer size: 64512
| atapi: -1
| cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD/DVD-Recorder.
| cdrecord: Unknown error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error
| CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
| cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
|
| I have run "cdrecord -scanbus" and updated /etc/default/cdrecord per
| TA# 126107.
| Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You have not told us two other useful pieces of information:

Does readcd work?

And just what does 'cdrecord -scanbus' tell you about the drive?

--
JP
==> [url]http://www.frappr.com/cusm[/url] <==

On Mar 12, 4:30 pm, Jean-Pierre Radley <j...@jpr.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> wabkytyped (on Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:19:49PM -0700):
> | When I run mkdev fd and chose option "5", for CD and then option "3"[/color]
..
..
..y help would be greatly appreciated.[color=blue]
>
> You have not told us two other useful pieces of information:
>
> Does readcd work?
>
> And just what does 'cdrecord -scanbus' tell you about the drive?
>
> --
> JP
> ==>http://www.frappr.com/cusm<==[/color]
thanks for replying.

I posted on google and I was limmited in the amount of info I could
include.
I ram cdrecord -scanbus and updated etc/default/cdrecorder.

I was able to make the boot CD by editing usr/lib/mkdev/fd and hard
coding the address of the CD indicated by the cdrecord -scanbus
command.

Thanks again for your help.
Wabky