cdrecord --scanbus on gentoo

[dave at math.mit.edu (David Backeberg)]

Your error message told you to retry with
cdrecord -scanbus

rather than the
cdrecord --scanbus
you showed us

One dash, not two. What happens with the single dash command?

And...
give us the output of "cat /var/log/messages | grep hd"
are you feeding any flags for scsi emulation to your bootloader?
-- 
David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)
Network Staff Assistant
MIT Math Dept.
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On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Rajesh Monty wrote:

> Hi
Does anyone know the cause of the following error  :
$ cdrecord --scanbus

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a28 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J?rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

I'm running '2.4.25-gentoo-r3' and lsmod produces:
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
ide-scsi                9104   0
sg                     27132   0  (autoclean) (unused)
usbcore                37348   0  (unused)
nvidia               1630464  11

Which other module needs to be compiled/loaded into the kernel?

thanks