DOH ..i did it as well John Adam On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:04:13PM -0400, John LeMay wrote:

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Do you really need to update the firmware? if it ain't broke to fix it i say.

Don't know, however I know under Windows I've had problems burning CD's with old firmware on drives. I did find a project designed to write Linux firmware installers for several drives. Finally!

Really ..whats the URL?, id be interested in that also ..ive just updated the firmware on a SCSI cdr drive to fix a multi session problem and a i had to move the drive to a win box to do it, what a pain in the ass.

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A device link is just that. Its just an icon with a name thats a short cut to the drive, it doesn't effect your hardware config at all. Does it really matter what the name of the icon is? if you right click on it and go to properties you can change what device it points to (if you use the ide-scsi driver it will be /dev/sr0) and icon and maybe even the name.

Understood. However I've had issues in the past with device links - specifically ones for digital cameras working. Thought there might be something special that needed to be done.

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you don't need a device link for your device to work ..try using the command line more and take a look at the mount command (man mount)

Heh, I have six terminals - rxvt even, not that Konsole beast - open right now in fact. I'm not a newbie, just a newbie to CDRW devices in Linux.

lol ..sorry if i sounded condescending at all, ive just come across a alot of users who underestimate the power of the command line in linux and just want a bit of point and click to get stuff working. For me x windows is just a way to run more terminals on one screen and view webpages with full graphics :)

Thanks for the help. There was one last piece I needed to do - insmod ide-scsi after rebooting. How do I get ide-scsi to load at boot?

just drop it in your boot.local file (/etc/init.d/boot.local) add the "insmod ide-scsi" at the end and it will load at the end of the boot sequence.

thanks!

Glad i could help ..i hate posting help requests and getting no answers :) Adam

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