From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: cdparanoia starts, checks /dev/cdrom, then /dev/scd0, but reports no generic SCSI device found. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run cdparanoia -B -v Actual Results: [leo@localhost br]$ cdparanoia -B -v cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13, 1999) (C) 1999 Monty <monty> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to paranoia http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd0 Expected Results: It should have started ripping the CD: [leo@localhost br]$ cdparanoia -B -v cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13, 1999) (C) 1999 Monty <monty> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to paranoia http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface generic device: /dev/sg0 ioctl device: /dev/scd0 CDROM sensed: ATAPI CD-R/RW CRW6206A 1.2A Additional info: The problem is that the RH7.1 installer does not create the /dev/sg* devices, and does not load the sg module. To solve the problem, go to /dev, run ./MAKEDEV sg, then go to rc.sysinit, find the reference to modprobe ide-cd, copy that line and replace ide-cd with sg.
Also, unless root is the only user to run cdparanoia, the /dev/sg? device needs to have read and write permissions for all.