On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 18:48, prata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >it was suggested that ide-scsi is not need to get a CDRW > >drive working. In that case, how does one write to a CD. > >I am also having a minor problem with the sound. It seems that everythingworks > >except the PC speaker. How can I turn it on? > > Pass the kernel at boot time ide-cd="device" without quotes of course. > Which kernel are you running? And what application are you using to > burn CDs? Gui or not is what I mean by that. No... 2.6 doesn't need IDE-SCSI emulation anymore. Instead, just invoke cdrecord as follows: cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdx ... where hdx is your CD-ROM drive as seen by the IDE layer. In my case, it's hdd.