Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:07:01PM -0500, Thomas H. George spake thus:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> > -- Thomas H. George <tomgeorge@spininternet.com> wrote
> > (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:38 PM -0500):
> > > It used to work.
> > >
> > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.
> > > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows
> > >
> > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi
> > > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd:
> > > DMA
> > > hdd: Norcent RWJ-401S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > >
> > > I have burnt cd's with the Norcent CD-RW drive in the past. Now,
> > > suddenly xcdroast can't find it and cdrecord -scanbus fails.
> >
> > It looks like you're setting DMA on /dev/hdd? I'd done this (by
> > accident), and it made ide-scsi not work. Try turning it off, reloading
> > ide-scsi (modprobe ide-scsi) and see if that will work.
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> > matthew@weierophinney.net
>
> I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn
> it off. Could you tell me how you did this?
I had a similar problem with my CD-ROM. What I did was make a one-line
executable in /etc/init.d:
/sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc
When my system boots up, it disables hdparm on hdc which is my cd-rom.
Sam
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