On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:17:23 -0500, Glenn wrote
I have an HP 9500 CD writer that working fine in RH 7, 8 and 9 but Fedora only recognizes it as a reader. The scanbus identifies the writer correctly and the config file shows the correct device, etc.
cdrecord does not exhibit any of this issue. I have used xcdroast -d10 and the result indicates that xcdroast to detect the HP writer and thus defaults to assuming it is a reader ONLY.
Anybody had a similiar experience?
-- Glenn Simpson VE3DSP Hamilton, Ont email: gsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I'm not sure if this will help you. But do you have the 'hdc=ide-scsi' on your
kernel loading command line. From what I understand, is that Xcdroast and
other CD buring software no longer require this, as they are able to access
the drive directly via IDE, but I have configured my system this way (Fedora
did not set this up by default, where RH9 did). So maybe this is why Xcdroast
doesn't see you CD-ROM drive as a burner.
Wolf
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Thanks Wolf for the comment.
I did remove the scsi option in the grub boot config and tried the action again. I caused setup to scan the device again. This time config showed I was using an ATAPI device and it recognized the HP drive as a reader/writer :-)
I saved that config.
xcdroast warned that an ATAPI device would be very slow and that I should consider using a SCSI config.
I then restored the option in the boot config and rebooted the host.
When the system was up, I again went to xcdroast setup, and rescanned the device. This time is simply indicated a device at 0,0,0 (correct values. I check the CD drive and everything was still in reader/writer mode. Again I saved the xcdroast config. Did a couple checks with a CD and all seems 100%.
Not sure what got cleared up, but it is working now.
Thanks Wolf.
Glenn -- Glenn Simpson VE3DSP Hamilton, Ont email: gsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
