Re: CD/RW under potato
"Dr. Simon Read" <simon@email.clark.american.edu> writes:
> I'm getting pretty frustrated with my upgrade to potato. I bought a
> CD/RW at about the same time as upgrading, but I can't seem to make it
> work.
>
> I know I have to use the ide-scsi drivers, but I have no idea how to
> configure them. I can't make them recognise the devices I have. I
> have a regular CD drive and the CD/RW (an HP 8200i) connected to ide0,
> so they are hdc and hdd.
>
> Can anyone help me configure them? Does anyone know a 'fine' manual I
> can refer to? I've read all the relevant HOWTOs (I think) and they
> don't help!
I think that things are slightly easier now with 2.2 kernels than with
2.0 kernels.
You have checked that you have the master and slave settings
correct for the 2 CD drives?
When I recompiled my kernel I included the following (some of which
may not strictly be necessary...)
SCSI support, SCSI CD support, SCSI generic support, SCSI
emulation. I de-selected IDE/ATAPI CDROM support, since I only have
a CD/RW in this machine. I think you could do the same and read
your normal CD drive using SCSI emulation, and this might be simpler
than trying to have one of each.
I did *NOT* have to add
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
to lilo.conf (because I use modules).
In modutils I added a new file cdrw-ide-scsi:
post-install scsi_mod "/sbin/insmod" "-k" "ide-scsi"
pre-remove scsi_mod "/sbin/rmmod" "ide-scsi"
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
and re-ran update-modules. I guess you will want to add ",hdd" to the
end of the last line (but I'm not certain of the syntax for a list of
drives to ignore).
After re-booting, my CDRW shows up as /dev/scd0, so in /dev I have a
symlink:
/dev/cdrom -> scd0
Your second drive will presumably show up as /dev/scd1.
The CD-Writing-HOWTO goes into more detail, and points to some web
sites that I found very helpful when first setting up my CDRW.
--
Gilbert Laycock email: gtl1@mcs.le.ac.uk
Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock
University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902
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