-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 March 2003 23:23 pm, DB Troll wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 04:36, DB Troll wrote:
Could someone please tell me how to copy cd,s. I am using 8.0 and kde3.1, I also have x-cdroast. When I check these they both have the cd-rw as reader and writer. I cannot seem to configure either to use the cd-rom as reader so that I can burn on the fly.
At the moment, those programs can only see scsi devices, so to use your reader you need to set it up as a scsi emulated device
Add "<device>=ide-scsi" - where <device> is something like hdc, depending on where your reader is connected in the IDE chain - to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. Then you need to reboot your system.
After that, your reader will be seen as /dev/sr#, where # is probably 0 or 1, so you should probably change the /dev/cdrom symlink to point to it with a command like
rm /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
look at the boot messages in /var/log/boot.msg to see which sr device is actually used on your system
Then you need to make sure that you have read and write access to the generic scsi devices, with a command like
chmod 666 /dev/sg*
If you want to be more careful about security, set the ownership to some group and make sure your user is in that group
This, very briefly, is how it's done. If you think some of the above isn't explained enough, just ask :)
regards Anders
Anders, Thank you very much, just followed your advice and all woks quite well. David Barrow
Just a note. In the next kernel will have "packet writing" as one of the features and will make ide cdrom burning much easier. Also, I believe there is a version of xcdroast (or perhaps it was one of the other popular cd burner apps) that has a beta of ide cdrom compatibility. I heard someone on the list mention it and also remember in the last version of SuSE (8.0) installing it. I wasn't doing a lot of burning then and for the life of me can't remember how well it worked. But I have read the changelog of 2.5 (soon to be 2.6/3.0?) and some other commentary by the devs about packet writing and better I/O for multimedia and the sort. Things are coming along steady and sure. I don't mind ide-scsi, but it would be nice to just have the cdrom/cdrecorders working out of the default interface for ide for no other reason than just installing the OS and having this functionality from the get-go, no fuss, no muss! Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+f+j97WVLiDrqeksRAkq1AJ9FONGwyNFEy9kbc0ea+5bF8auB9wCfbr2W 1l0ZITSHmjyzXDTv+A+JYFo= =FYON -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----