cdrecord

[Billy Wilkerson]

receiving cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open scsi driver when i run a cdrecord -scanbus. HPUX B11.11.

[Steven Schweda]

Are you offering any clues as to which
cdrecord this might be? (Where you got it,
how you installed it, "cdrecord --version"
output, ...)

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Welcome to the forums Billy!

Are you new to HP-UX? Remember that every thing is Unix is a file and as such the System needs to know the location for it.
To find out where a file is located you can always use the whereis command to fine an executable file.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] you can always use the whereis
> command [...]

I'll admit that it it wasn't so clear as it
could have been, but he said, "cdrecord: No
such file or directory. Cannot open scsi
driver", not something like "sh: cdrecord:
command not found". His shell found the
"cdrecord" program, but his (unspecified)
"cdrecord" program could not figure out how
to do a "scanbus" operation.

I normally use cdrecord on VMS, where I
disable the "scanbus" capability, so I never
use it, but I did build a relatively recent
version on HP-UX, and it doesn't do much
better for me:

dy # uname -a
HP-UX dy B.11.11 U 9000/785 2012616114 unlimited-user license

dy # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a48 (hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11) Copyright (C) 199
5-2008 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open or use SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

It's not an ideal error message ("Cannot
open" _what_???).

On the other hand, while I know nothing, in
my source kit, there does seem to be a
"MKNOD.hpux" shell script, which seems to
have some useful effect. As it says in
"READMEs/README.hpux":

[...]
Note that there are no device nodes for userland SCSI on HP-UX,
you have to call the included shell script MKNOD.hpux first.
[...]

I don't have an optical-disc-writing drive in
that system, so I can't test everything, but
"-scanbus" does better.