[Sorry if this is a dupe]
John,
Try explicitly disabling DMA for the drive (man hdparm). If this fixes your problems, you can make the change "permanent" by copying /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdX (eg. /etc/harddiskhdd) and set USE_DMA=0 in that file.
Note also that you shouldn't have to use SCSI emulation any longer, since cdrecord has support for IDE burners now. Try "cdrecord dev=ATAPI --scanbus" and you should get a list of the ATAPI device nodes.
-David
On Jun 12, 2004, at 14:49, John Thompson wrote:
My Teac SCSI CD writer recently died, and being unable to find a similar
replacement without spending a fortune, I eventually settled on a
PlexWriter 24/10/40a ATAPI drive to replace it. I've installed it and
the kernel finds it without problems using the ide-scsi module:
