Re: cdrecord -scanbus -> not working

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@uerj.br> writes:

> On 25.01.2003 19:33 Jonah Sherman wrote:
>> You need ide-scsi emulation to use an IDE CDRW drive.  Add
>> SCSI(CONFIG_SCSI), SCSI Generic(CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG), and SCSI
>> CDRom(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR), and SCSI IDE
>> Emulation(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) to your kernel, then add:
>> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> Is it really necessary the SCSI Generic(CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG) option above?

Yes, you need it to write to CDs even if you have real SCSI hardware.
(And also to rip CDs using cdparanoia, if you're in an IDE-SCSI
world.)  That list looks right to me.

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