From: John Murphy <jfmurphy@charter.net> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:04:26 -0500 Message-Id: <00113013042600.01449@dad1> Subject: Re: [SLE] CD-RW can't access through /dev/scdx On Thursday 30 November 2000 12:17, you wrote:
Hi everyone.
Sorry, but am still struggling to get my CD-RW working.
Neither /dev/cdrom nor /dev/scd0 nor /dev/sr0 are recognised as block devices by the kernel. I have tried force linking /dev/cdrom to both of the others but with no luck.
Needless to say, cdrecord -scanbus gives me no scsi devices.
Can anyone help?
Thanks, Steve.
Steve he's how I did my CDW My drive was orginally setup for hdc Your drive may be hdd, depends on your hadrware setup. In Yast through the kernal boot config look for the lilo config line. Once there add to the append line hdc=ide-scsi You can check after by looking into lilo.conf to see if it's there. You will see a line as append="hdc=ide-scsi" Next I added a line to /sbin/init.d/boot.local file. /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi Next edit line in /etc/modules.conf file from alias scsi_hostadapter off. Change this to alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi Last change is to go to /dev and look for symbolic link to cdrom it will be an icon with three blocks. Move that to trash (don't delete it, if something is wrong you can copy it back later to restore) you're going to have to make a new link for the scsi cdrom now. I assume you are root or in su, you want to creat a new link ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom Your device could be scd0 or sr0 depending on your CD hadware setup. Lastly look into you desktop icon for your CD and check the properties, hit device tab. It should say for Device /dev/cdrom and for Mount Point /cdrom In KDE 2 I had to change it as it said CD-ROM. Hope this helps as I know I spent a few hours on it myself and appreciated someone helping me out here as well. John.......