[Techtalk] HP 9100i CD-Writer on Mandrake 8.2

[Brenda Bell]

First off, thanks to everyone for pointing me to all sorts of great info. 
I think I'm starting to grasp how this stuff works.

Quoting John Clarke <johnc+linuxchix at kirriwa.net>:

> I don't have one, but according to the CD-writing HOWTO:
> 
>     http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/CD-Writing-HOWTO-1.html
>     
> it's supported by cdrecord.

This looked like a great place to start, but I think I've already made my
first mistake.

Chapter 2 says:

The listing below shows a set of commands you could start with. The
commands create device file entries under /dev unless they already exists.

test `whoami` = 'root' || echo "You must be root to execute the commands."
cd /dev/
umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o-rwx
[ -f loop0 ] \
    || ./MAKEDEV loop \
    || for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod loop$i b 7 $i; done
[ -f sg0 -o -f sga ] \
    || ./MAKEDEV sg \
    || for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod sg$i  c 21 $i; done

I copied and executed these commands only to find out that I don't have
MAKEDEV.  The man page is there, but the command itself is not.  The end
result is that some of the commands to create devices succeeded and others
failed.  From /dev, ls -l loop* sg* displays the following:

lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop0 -> loop/0
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop1 -> loop/1
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop2 -> loop/2
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop3 -> loop/3
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop4 -> loop/4
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop5 -> loop/5
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop6 -> loop/6
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            6 Sep 22 22:48 loop7 -> loop/7
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   0 Sep 22 22:49 sg0
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   1 Sep 22 22:49 sg1
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   2 Sep 22 22:49 sg2
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   3 Sep 22 22:49 sg3
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   4 Sep 22 22:49 sg4
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   5 Sep 22 22:49 sg5
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   6 Sep 22 22:49 sg6
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      21,   7 Sep 22 22:49 sg7

loop:
total 0
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   0 Dec 31  1969 0
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   1 Dec 31  1969 1
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   2 Dec 31  1969 2
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   3 Dec 31  1969 3
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   4 Dec 31  1969 4
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   5 Dec 31  1969 5
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   6 Dec 31  1969 6
brw-r-----    1 root     root       7,   7 Dec 31  1969 7

Given the missing MAKEDEV, I'm sure this is not correct, but I'm not sure
what I should do to fix it.

Any suggestions?

-- 
Brenda
http://opensource.theotherbell.com