On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:52:49 -0500, Glenn wrote > Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > 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 > > > > [snip] > > > > 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 > > > 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 No Problems, :-), great to see it's working again. I read about the Burning software starting to use IDE ports. But I left mine this way as I didn't want to risk not being able to backup my data. I use a DVD-R/CD-R burner for data backup. Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
