-->I started by trying it out on my Fedora 10, but moved on to ubuntu 9.04 after it showed the message "SCSI driver not found" and "cdrecord --scanbus " would not detect the CDROM RW device. -->Then i kept searching for module "ide_cd" in the output of "lsmod". and "insmod ide_cd" said no file named ide_cd exists.But none of these is required. --> In ubuntu cdrecord --scanbus showed my device as 3,0,0 and when i inserted a CD or DVD the output of cdrecord disappeared. The guiding light came from these 2 resources:- 1. /usr/share/doc/README.wodim.ATAPI.setup (in ubuntu) 2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning As mentioned in link 2, i detected /dev/dvrw2 and /dev/cdrw2 both linked to sr0. Now issued the command cdrecord speed =2 dev=/dev/cdrw2 path_to_iso the command failed showing device or resource busy. I issued "umount /dev/cdrw2" then again "cdrecord speed =2 dev=/dev/cdrw2 path_to_iso"
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