how to replace CDburner with DVDburner?

[Shayne Patton]

Jason Clinton wrote:

> chris wrote:
>
>> Of course, I have no /dev/pg*.  I unpulgged the drive and powered up, 
>> let the "hardware detection" tell me it was gone, then powered off 
>> and plugged it back in, and let "hardware detection" tell me it was 
>> added, but no change in scanbus results.
>> Next step suggestion?
>
>
> Besides not using Mandrake (heh), you could try cdrecord dev=help and 
> seeing what options are available. Then try some of those options like 
> "cdrecord -scanbus dev=SCSI:"
>
> In the 2.4 Kernel series which you are using because it was included 
> with Mandrake, CD recording is done through SCSI emulation. If 
> something in the Mandrake hardware detect script is broken (likely), 
> that may be turned off. If you're feeling up to it, I can explain how 
> to fix it but its quite involved for a beginner and the intricate 
> quirks of Mandrake may get in the way.

I'm with Jason here.  It's been my experience that replacing dvd and 
cdrw drives tends to break the scsi emulation in the "popular" 
distro's.  Check your boot log to see if scsi emulation is in fact 
loading at boot.  Then Jason already offered to help you fix it.  :)