Dear list, could someone point me to what I need to do to get my SuSE 8.2 to recognise my new CD-RW? I have had an old zip drive on my office machine replaced with a CD-RW. On start-up, SuSE recognises new hardware, but only creates an entry for a second CD-ROM drive. Also, the replaced zip drive is still in the /etc/fstab file. I think I probably need to edit fstab, and probably do other things, in order for the new CD-RW to become fully functional in SuSE. However, I haven't found anything relevant in the SuSE help files or the support database. Thank you, Dennis
On 2003-10-10, Dennis Nigbur wrote:
Dear list,
could someone point me to what I need to do to get my SuSE 8.2 to recognise my new CD-RW?
How about YaST? Cheers, HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered Linux User: #189958 \\\ \\\ ~~~~ SuSE 8.2 * Kernel 2.4.20-4GB * KDE 3.1.3 ~~~~ ///
On Friday 10 October 2003 5:07 pm, Dennis Nigbur wrote:
could someone point me to what I need to do to get my SuSE 8.2 to recognise my new CD-RW?
This worked for me (with thanks to Anders Johansen!): To backfit a CD-recorder: Fit the cd-recorder and wire it up; for the purposes of the following, we will assume that the existing cdrom is hdc, and the new cdrecorder will be hdd (ie the cdrom is the master on the second IDE channel, and the cdrecorder is the slave on that same channel). Boot the machine. SuseWatcher will recognise that new hardware has been added and ask if you want to configure it. After you choose to do so, a screen will show the new cdrecorder alongside the existing cdrom. Click on the cdrecorder line and click Add. The cdrecorder will be assigned a device such as /dev/sr0 - note this down. In YaST -> System -> Sysconfig Editor -> Kernel, click on the INITRD_MODULES entry, and adjust what is there (just reiserfs by default) to read reiserfs ide-scsi. Save this. In YaST -> System -> Bootloader Configuration, click on the Edit Configuration Files button, and in the kernel line add hdc=ide-cdrom, hdd=ide-scsi, hddlun=0. Save this. (Note: if you do not add the hdc=ide-cdrom, both drives will be seen as SCSI, and CDs etc will not be playable in the CD drive.) Change the /dev/cdrecorder link to point to the cdrecorder device that you got when you added the new hardware (above, we assumed /dev/sr0) by running: ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrecorder. Reboot. You may need to create a desktop icon manually for the cdrecorder (right-click on the desktop -> Create New CD/DVD-ROM Device), or SuseWatcher may create an icon for it either now or on a subsequent login. Run cdrecord -scanbus, and the cdrecorder should be picked up. Run K3b Setup to configure it for use with K3b. -- Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rydd yn Gymraeg
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Dennis Nigbur
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Helgi Örn Helgason
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Kevin Donnelly