Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:08:04 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I have a DVD (hdc) and a CDRW (hdd) on a machine. The only defined
> mount is /cdrom, which is actually the DVD. In Redhat, I simply added
> append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf, ran lilo and re-boot
> and both of them worked as did cdrecord. This does not work in Debian
> (2.4.18-bf2.4). Further Googling suggested that I add a line to
> modules.conf. Looking at modules.conf, I saw dire warnings against
> manual editing, and that I was to use update-modles instead. According
> to the manpage, I'm supposed to create a file in /etc/modutils. There
> are, however, no examples whatsoever. Can somebody who's gotten a
> similar setup running please post their files? Thanks.
>
> Alternatively, there's supposed to be undocumented native support for
> ATAPI devices in cdrecord; has anybody figured that out?
Create a file in /etc/modutils containing the following:
options ide-cd ignore=\"hdc hdd\"
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scd1 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
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