Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Monday 23 February 2004 3:49 am, stephen parkinson wrote:
>John L Fjellstad wrote:
>>David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> writes:
>>>like. Under 2.6.*, you need /dev/scd0. Both can coexist until one is
>>>ready to leave 2.4.2* forever. K3B (KDE burner) wants all CD burners
>>>to mount to a / cdwriter directory. One can additionally mount to
>>>/mnt/cd0, etc. for normal file operations. A longer fstab, that's all.
>>
>>That's weird. I don't believe I ever used /dev/scd? for my ide cdroms,
>>and I haven't had any problems burning cds (although I haven't tested
>>K3B yet).  I usually use devfs (and testing udev now with 2.6), and scd?
>>have never showed up as a node at my place (with the ide cdrom. On my
>>scsi cdrom system, I do use /dev/scd?, I think).
>
>would you please try k3b and report your findings?
>here 2.6.3 with hdc=cdrom hdd=cdrom in grub/menu.list
>
>it used to report cannot find cdrecord and yes i have seen the
>posts about wrapper script, now it hangs on scanning scsi bus
>
>cdrecord --scanbus reports the drives however
>
>all very strange, xcdroast initially sees 4 cdroms, 2 scsi 2 ide, a rescan
>reduces it to two and it burns cdroms still
>
>stephen

I'm experiencing the SCSI-bus hang with 2.6.3 -- I dropped back to 2.6.1 and 
k3b works fine...