Thomas Jones wrote:
Has anyone seen any drivers for the Creative CD-RW RW4224E? My SuSE 8.0 system is recognizing it as a SCSI device....which obviously is incorrect given its a IDE device. I not only cannot burn disks with it....but it won't even read a ISO9660 filesystem.
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<6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW4224E Rev: 1.36 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
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Thanks. Thomas Jones
This is probably because it's be handed off to the "ide-scsi" emulation when you installed the OS. What you need to realize (if your unaware) that in order to burn cdroms you must use the ide-scsi module. Even if you look in the file system registry under Windows under SCSI you'll more likely than not see any cdrom listed there (especially for burners). So, first go into the "/dev" directory and you'll probably see to symlinks. One named "cdrom" and the other named "cdrecorder". I'm betting the symlink "cdrom" point to a default cdrom device and not device "sr0". Your cdrecorder is actually running as /dev/sr0 for device "s"csi "r"ecorder device # 0. If the symlink for the "cdrecorder" points to dev/cdrom0 (of something like that) then it's pointing to the wrong device. If it's pointing to /dev/sr0 then it's correct. The "cdrom" device may or may not point to /dev/sr0. Either way you cannot record/burn CDs with a cdrom (it only reads, no write/rewrite). you have to use dev/cdrecorder (aka sr0). I bet if you look at you file tree in you'll see a directory named "media" and under that you'll possibly 3 sub dirs. "cdrecorder", "cdrom", and "floppy". For the issue concerning file sys reads. I have had this problem with cdroms, especially if a cdrecorder/burner is installed as well. I you have both there is a work around in the SuSE support files. Anyway, to make sure you can burn with the recorder device change the group permission to disk (make sure that device sr0 is changed, the symlink may or may not change by it's self as well. If not then change the symlink group permissions to disk). Of course you need to do this as "root" (forgive me if I'm oversimplifying, I don't know your level of experience). It should read something like: /dev/cdrecorder points to /dev/sr0, and furthermore should look like this: ~ la /dev/sr0 rwxrwxr-x root disk /dev/sr0 or user root group disks and like wise for /dev/cdrecorder symlink. Then you need to make sure that the users, such as your own user account are added to the group "disks" You can also change the group of the device and it's symlink to "users" if you want. But changing it to disks and giving the group "disks" read, write, and execute permissions should do it. If you need further help please post to the list agian. HTH, Curtis :)