Re: 2.6.8 Kernel and SCSI Emulation
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:12:42PM +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Justin
>
> > 2.6 Kernels do not need scsi emulation (as 2.4 do). You need to
> > use the cdrecord argument dev=/dev/hdc (or other, as appropriate).
> > As it indicates, such device specification is an unofficial patch
> > to cdrecord (which IMHO works wonderfully).
> > You then need to find a GUI that uses cdrecord appropriately:
> > Lacarno: xcdroast found my drive and knows to use ATAPI
> > mode
>
> Not quite sure I fully understood that so I'll ask one more
> question...
>
> Looking at /etc/cdrecord/cdrecord I find..
>
> # This file is /etc/default/cdrecord
> # It contains defaults that are used if no command line option
> # or environment is present.
> #
> # The default device, if not specified elswhere
> #
> CDR_DEVICE=yamaha
>
> Do I change that to my Teac CD-W58E burner or do I change something
> further down the config file ? ...
You have to change this to the /dev/hdc (or your equivalent of
your CD-writer): "CDR_DEVICE=/dev/hdc" it should read then.
You can mostly ignore the rest of the config file
Cheers
Floris
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