Setting up a CD-RW after the fact
Howdy, Just a quick question: I've got a IDE CD-RW I'd like to install onto my (already installed) SuSE 7.1 system, and when I started poking around for documentation, it looks like maybe the only way to burn a CD is to set up ide-scsi emulation. This rather surprises me: cant' the apps, or the kernel for that matter, just recognize an IDE burner? Bummer if not. This is the sort of thing that keeps newbies away from Linux :-\ Anyway, just wanted to make sure I wasn't heading off on the wrong track before I dig into setting up SCSI emulation. This reminds me: one thing YaST2 really lacks is tools for installing hardware after the install. NICs, printers video and sound cards are about the only thing you can set up with YaST2 post-install. I wish SuSE would put a good bit of work into that. Especially for things like Removable media - LS120s, Zips, CD burners. P.S. What apps do y'all like best? KOnCd and kreatecd look like the best ones. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
From Jonathan Wilson to suse-linux-e@lists.suse.com about [SLE] Setting up...:
Howdy,
Just a quick question: I've got a IDE CD-RW I'd like to install onto my (already installed) SuSE 7.1 system, and when I started poking around for documentation, it looks like maybe the only way to burn a CD is to set up ide-scsi emulation. This rather surprises me: cant' the apps, or the kernel for that matter, just recognize an IDE burner?
In fact, the same thing happens in Windows. But in windows this thing is done by the manufacturer's driver and in linux it's done by the kernel.
Bummer if not. This is the sort of thing that keeps newbies away from Linux :-\
Anyway, just wanted to make sure I wasn't heading off on the wrong track before I dig into setting up SCSI emulation.
It's not that difficult, just read the section in the handbook about compiling your own kernel and follow the instructions in the CD-Writing-HOWTO about which options you need for setting ide-scsi up. If you still have problems, just mail to the list. :)
-- dieter
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:24:51PM +0200, dieter wrote:
From Jonathan Wilson to suse-linux-e@lists.suse.com about [SLE] Setting up...: skipped some stuff..
Anyway, just wanted to make sure I wasn't heading off on the wrong track before I dig into setting up SCSI emulation. It's not that difficult, just read the section in the handbook about compiling your own kernel and follow the instructions in the CD-Writing-HOWTO about which options you need for setting ide-scsi up. If you still have problems, just mail to the list. :)
It is not necessary to recompile your kernel add the apropriate hdX=ide-scsi lines for your cd-roms to your lilo.conf file then add /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi to /ect/init.d/boot.local. You are all done a working IDE CDRW
-- dieter
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Indeed. My scsi emulation doesn't seem to be working, even though (I think) I followed the rules step-by-step... That's just another reasong for keeping my Win2k installation......... On Thursday 31 May 2001 19:20, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Howdy,
Just a quick question: I've got a IDE CD-RW I'd like to install onto my (already installed) SuSE 7.1 system, and when I started poking around for documentation, it looks like maybe the only way to burn a CD is to set up ide-scsi emulation. This rather surprises me: cant' the apps, or the kernel for that matter, just recognize an IDE burner?
Bummer if not. This is the sort of thing that keeps newbies away from Linux :-\
Anyway, just wanted to make sure I wasn't heading off on the wrong track before I dig into setting up SCSI emulation.
This reminds me: one thing YaST2 really lacks is tools for installing hardware after the install. NICs, printers video and sound cards are about the only thing you can set up with YaST2 post-install. I wish SuSE would put a good bit of work into that. Especially for things like Removable media - LS120s, Zips, CD burners.
P.S. What apps do y'all like best? KOnCd and kreatecd look like the best ones.
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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