Actually after looking at dmesg I see that I have the wrong cd device. 
Sorry about the second question and thanks again.

--Justin

Justin Heath wrote:

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> David Maxwell wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:58:29PM +0000, Justin Heath wrote:
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>>> I have a generic IDE CDR/W. As far as I know cdrecord only writes to 
>>> SCSI devices. Under Linux I had to use the ide-scsi module (ide to 
>>> scsi emulation) for cdrecord to work. Is there an equivelent to this 
>>> or another way I can accomplish cd writing with and IDE CDR/W under 
>>> NetBSD 1.5? TIA.
>> 
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>> 
>> NetBSD's Atapi support is fully integrated. It 'just works'.
>> 
> Thanks. What parameters should I use for cdrecord then? I have tried 
> writing to cd0a and get an error "device not supported". Also I have 
> tried 'cdrecord -scanbus' and get the error "cannot open SCSI driver". 
> Any suggestions? TIA.
> 
> --Justin
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