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Re: DVD/CDRW drives support



What does cdrecord -scanbus give you?
Make sure that the ide-cd modules isn't already controlling
that drive.  A way to prevent this is to create a file
ide-cd in /etc/modutils with the following line:
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
-jackp


--- Joseph A Nagy Jr <joseph_a_nagy_jr@charter.net> wrote:
> Nick Lidakis wrote:
> > Matìj 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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