Stuart Barbee wrote:
Folks,
I run SuSE 6.3 with a generic brand cd-rom drive and an HP CD Writer Plus 7500. Both are ATAPI drives connected to my secondary IDE controller. The cd-rom is set as the first device, the cd-writer as the sedondary. I have yet to be able to configure Linux to recognize the CD writer. I can successfully mount and access my first cd-rom but get errors trying to mount the writer.
Here is how I did it with a similar set up as yours. First, it's usually recommended that you have the CDR as the master drive on your IDE controller with the CDrom as the slave. You'll need to recompile your kernel (which you've apparently done at least once). Get rid of IDE CD support (you won't need it anymore). Enable generic SCSI support and SCSI CDrom support. Basically do all the things mentioned on the CD Writing HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1 Except note that I mentioned getting rid of all IDE CD support as opposed to their advice of modularizing - as I said, you don't need it. Doing the above should get your CDR/rom detected properly by your kernel. In /etc/fstab I have the following lines: /dev/scd1 /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/scd0 /cdrom0 iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 You'll notice that my scd1 is mounted at cdrom - that's because it is the CDrom and it reads faster and so I use it for installing software and playing audio cds (easier to link things like that to /dev/cdrom - more standard I suppose). I'm not sure why I have the options (ro,user,...) set differently for each one, but they both seem to work properly (any advice here would be appreciated though). Also I didn't have to do anything to LILO or to /etc/modules.conf as you had indicated you did in your post. Currently everything seems to be working properly, I can mount either CD, write/rewrite to the CDR, play music on the CDrom, basically everything I would need to be able to do. Hope this helps. David Bellows -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/