Re: Non-SCSI ATAPI CD burner?
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Rex> Is it possible to use a non-SCSI CD recorder under hamm? As far
Rex> as I can tell, everything assumes SCSI. The CD-writing FAQ
Rex> mentions something about ATAPI drives circumventing the need for
Rex> generic SCSI devices, but cdwrite and cdrecord seem to demand
Rex> SCSI (if not generic SCSI).
I have a non SCSI CD writer, and it has worked fine for me, although I
don't use it heavily.
I thought I was going to need to upgrade cdrecord etc to newer
versions, but after downloading from slink, I found they were exactly
the same versions as in hamm.
I had to rebuild my kernel so that it provides IDE SCSI emulation. I
used kernel 2.0.35; I think you would have to patch the source if you
used 2.0.34. Once you have done that, you need to give an extra boot
parameter along the lines of
hdc=ide-scsi
to get it to spring into life, but after that's done the CD writer
looks just like a scsi device, accessed through dev/scd0.
You probably want to look at:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
and especially:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI
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Gilbert Laycock email: gtl1@mcs.le.ac.uk
Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock
Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902
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