Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

[Joseph A Nagy Jr <joseph_a_nagy_jr@charter.net>]

Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Matěj Hausenblas wrote:
>
> > Hello List,
> > I would like to know, if in general nowadays the DVD/CDRW drives on 
> > laptops are supported by cdrecord and if getting them to work is the 
> > same as getting a standard drive to work on a desktop PC. (I mean 
> > ide-scsi emulation, or even better true scsi).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Matej
> >
> >
> >  
> Most laptop combo drives (i.e. DVD-Rom/CD-R/W) are ide devices, 
> selecting scsi emulation in the the kernel config (or loading the 
> modules) is usually all that is needed to get this working.
> My Thinkpad X23 with a attached media slice and combo dvd-rom cr-r/w 
> works fine.
>
>
> Nick Lidakis

My CD-RW is either completely unsupported, or running hdd (my cd-rw) = 
ide-scsi didn't work.

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