robert pearson <bobp@sevenofnine.erols.com> writes:

> cdrecord -dev=/dev/rcd1a:0,1 -V -checkdrive
> Cdrecord release 1.8a28 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
> scsidev: '/dev/rcd1a:0,1'
> devname: '/dev/rcd1a'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 1
> cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. Cannot get SCSI addr.
> cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. Cannot open SCSI driver.

This is expected.  The `a' device doesn't support sending raw
commands.

> cdrecord -dev=/dev/rcd1d:0,1 -V -checkdrive
> Cdrecord release 1.8a28 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
> scsidev: '/dev/rcd1d:0,1'
> devname: '/dev/rcd1d'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 1
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.

This is probably because you're specifying bogus target/lun options.
On our Plextor CD-R drive we just use `-dev=/dev/rcd0d' and it works
fine.