Re: Yamaha CDR not working
I realised that I only had SCSI emulation and SCSI ide support but not
SCSI cd rom support. I only have one drive so I disabled ATAPI cd support
and voila the CD drive works just fine. Thanks for the help...
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Ionut Georgescu wrote:
> Did you compile ide-scsi support ? If not, append a
> hdx=ide-scsi
>
> to your append= line in lilo.conf, where hdx is you CDRW drive.
> Then 'modprobe ide-scsi sr_mod sg' and in the end 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
> This should work. There is no problem if some of them are compiled as
> modules or into the kernel. It is important that you boot with
> hdx=ide-scsi and that you have support for scsi, ide-scsi, scsi cdrom
> (sr_mod) and scsi generic (sg). There was another thread on ATAPI CDRW a
> few days ago. Search the archives for details.
>
> Good Luck,
> Ionut
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:59:02AM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been trying to get a Yamaha CDR drive working using kernel 2.2.18
> > in a 2.2 version of Potato. I added SCSI support in the kernel, it comes
> > up as recognised. I also put the append statement in lilo (I don't use a
> > modular kernel). I have had the drive working before, but reinstalled
> > Debian on it. I tried the link statement for the CD-Writer HOWTO:
> >
> > cd /dev/ && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom
> >
> > When I try to mount the cd rom the following error results:
> >
> > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > PS please send correspondonce to my address because for some reason I
> > cannot subscribe to this list. After sendiing a confirmation e mail
> > nothing comes back.
> >
> > Thanks in advance....
> >
> > JKA
> >
> >
> >
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