On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:42, you wrote:
Chris Reeves wrote:
dizzy73 wrote:
This is the first time Im really trying to implement my cd burner 7.1 pro kernel 2.2.18
SuSE reconises my plain ATAPI cd as hdc and when the machime boot Dmesg seems to see both CDroms
hdd =plain atapi hdc = acer8xcdr
Confused here - is your plain ATAPI CD hdc or hdd?
sheese.... i cant EVEN paste text into netscape!!! Please find the attached boot message which shows my cd drives
So I go into yast>integrate hardware> select cd/dvd
then select the approaite hdc and hdd
This seems to have *no* effect whatsoever!
Im trying to access the burner software KDBurn or something and it dosent see the burner. Ive installed cdroast but it dosnt show up in the menu items (wondering why that is....)
You need to use the ide-scsi module, because the CD drive needs to be accessed as a SCSI device in order for cdrecord/xcdroast/etc. to see it (it probably uses the SCSI command set internally anyway). To do this, at the LILO prompt, type 'linux hdc=ide-scsi' (assuming that the burner is /dev/hdc).
Well I dont use LILO, I have a multiboot using loadlin from a windows/dos aattoexec
If you look at the boot msg youll see they arent scssi. The problem is when I go into yast and select the *approaite* "module" .... nothing happens!! even if I do select scssi... nothing happens,,, no confirmation... the window just goes away hence the problem
Now you can do a 'cdrecord -scanbus' and see if the burner shows up. If it does, you can set up some things like an fstab entry, and placing the the 'hdc=ide-scsi' as an append line in lilo.conf, and so on.
Have fun, Chris
Well... I certainally appreciate your help but I cant even get text to paste into this netscape window (using kedit to open the file select copy... paste isnt enabled in Netscape nor is ctrl v...most dishertning and confidence destroying... not to mention time wasting
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rob
Hi there. Using other means to boot than lilo is just plain ...........ss Using "loadlin" causes more trouble with configuring what modules load during boot time.Anyway if your atapi module grabs your cdr-rw first you don`t have chance with ide-scsi module. Here is what you could do if you boot with lilo:(As I don`t use loadlin you have to figure yourself integrating following) - login as root - with YaST configure the kernel so that you add in the append-line hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi (or whatever your devices are,check your boot.msg) (assuming your CD-drives are on master and slave on the secondary bus) - substitute in the file /etc/modules.conf the line with alias scsi_hostadapter off by alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi Add at the end of the file /sbin/init.d/boot.local a line with /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi - Enter the following commands (still as root): ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom ln -sf /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom1 Hope it helps See ya Al. A Note :You can choose whether to emulate ide-scsi your plain cdrom by not including that "hdd=ide-scsi so cdrom will stay "atapi"