Setting-up CDRW
Requesting Help Setting-up CDRW
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I had this same hardware setup running under RH7.3
Intel 845 P4 1.6G; 768MbRAM
Debian: 2.4.18-bf2.4
the SCSI emulation module was installed during the initial setup, and
lsmod returned: ide-scsi used 0 (Does the "used 0" mean anything?)
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/etc/lilo.conf
edited to insert: append="hdc=ide-scsi" on line 104 above
#Boot up Linux by default.
#
default=Linux
ran lilo -v with no errors reported
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/etc/fstab
edited to insert:
/dev/sc0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
(also tried /dev/scd0 and for mount point: /cdrw having created a directory
there)
Question:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
remains in /etc/fstab. Is this correct? Or should this be removed or linked
to
/dev/sco...and if the latter, is this the right way:
dev/cdrom /cdrw
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When I run cdrecord I get the following message:
"Unable ... could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?"
My answer is yes, but it does not inform the novice user as to how to get
there.
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When I run xcdroast I get: "Failed to scan the SCSI-bus...you have to
install the
SCSI emulation first, Please see the CD -Writing HOW TO how to do that. Well
I did that and I thought that was what I had done above.
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When I run cdrecord -scanbus I get:
No such file or directory.
(Thinking that this might be something like setting up a new partition, I
set up a
directory under / named "cdrw"
but that did not solve the problem.
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Variations on the theme are rebooting after every change
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I have spent several days on this and have read the relevant sections in
O'R. Running Linux; Hunger, D.G.L. Bible, and the CDRW HOW TO, as well as
having searched Google Linux and read half a dozen forums and list archives.
There is a great deal of contradictory information out there, even cocerning
the setup for Debian. Most of the information is also very old. How is it
possible that this is not something that is set up to at least be an option
at initial setup on Linux? What individual today setting up Linux does not
have a CDRW?
Best Wishes!
Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org
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