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Pointy
Asked: 2013-05-10 06:35:18 +0800 CST

Can't get cdrecord to work on new 13.04 installation

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Just upgraded a laptop to 13.04. Via Brasero, I can burn CDs and DVDs, but when I try cdrecord from the command line I get:

$ cdrecord --devices
wodim: No such file or directory. 
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

I get that same error regardless of the parameters with which I invoke the command. Is there some sort of package dependency issue?

edit — running wodim with strace shows that it tries to open all the drives /dev/hda through /dev/hdz, then everything from /dev/scd0 through /dev/scd255, and then it quits. It's probably a configuration thing.

13.04

2 Answers

  1. As @braiam mentioned this would appear to be a known issue with wodim. As a workaround you can use wodim -prcap instead.

    $ wodim -prcap
wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.
Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive...
Detected CD-R drive: /dev/sr0
Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : 
Vendor_info    : 'Optiarc '
Identification : 'DVD RW AD-7930H '
Revision       : '1.D1'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

  Does read CD-R media
  Does write CD-R media
  Does read CD-RW media
  Does write CD-RW media
  Does read DVD-ROM media
  Does read DVD-R media
  Does write DVD-R media
  Does read DVD-RAM media
  Does write DVD-RAM media
  Does support test writing

  Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks
  Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks
...
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  2. I believe this is a bug.

    The workaround is to specify the device manually or in /etc/wodim.conf:

    wodim dev=/dev/sr0 --devices

    Off course, listing the devices while specifying the device is a bit silly but with this option I'm able to write a CD.

    Note this is on 12.04 but should apply to your version as well.

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