At 03-01-03, Ralph De Witt wrote:
Carlos: Thanks very much for your help. Carlos: I have done some more looking and have found that I can not play cd's with
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 January 2003 17:27, Ralph De Witt wrote: the DVD, and cannot get to the cdrw. In Grub on the kernnel line I have only hdd=ide-scsi listed. My dvd, and cdrw are both ide drives. In the hardware info area of yast2, the DVD is listed as /dev/sr0, and the CDRW is listed as /dev/sr1 this in the CDROM section. The above is repeated in the SCSI section. My Desktop DVD icon is pointed to /dev/cdreacorder, and the Desktop CD-R icon is pointed to /dev/cdrom. In my /dev directory I see links for cdrom, cdrom1, cdrecorder, and dvd devices, but lack the skill to find out what they point to. In the media directory I have cdrom, cdrom1,cdrecorder, and dvd subdirectories. Can you help me sort this all out. Hopefully if we can get the links to the right devices and any extra removed then it will all work. Looks like the install went worst then the multiple repeats of the devices we fixed. This is possible the cause of the other errors I was seeing.
Ralph, 1st: If hdd is your DVD then there must be another hd.. for your CDRW (or vice versa). In the kernel line you must list both devices; so hdd=ide-scsi AND hd?=ide-scsi (you have to find out the correct "letter" for "?") Because of the ide-scsi emulation these two drive-id's will be changed into sr0 and sr1. 2nd : Your /dev/cdrom , /dev/cdrom1, /dev/cdrecorder and /dev/dvd must point to the correct "device entry" in /dev. You must use the command : ln -sf /dev/xxx /dev/yyy, where xxx is the physical device assignment and yyy the logical device name. E.g. to link /dev/cdrom to sr1, the command should be : ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrom When you take a look in /dev, the entry for cdrom should then look like : cdrom 0 B Mime type 2001-09-24 03.54 rw------- root root /dev/sr1 This must be done for all devices that you need to use. By the way, have you looked at the instructions in SuSE's Support Database article "IDE CD Writer" ? I found that very helpful, but there is one error in that article; they refer to /dev/sdc0 where you should read /dev/sr0 Success. ------------------------------ Jan Elders Nuenen the Netherlands