On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 16:16, Kristian André Gallis wrote: > Hello! > > I run Fedora 2 on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A7620 laptop, and have > suddenly got myself into trouble that I cannot find a solution to on the > web. > > I was going to burn my first CD with cdrecord on Fedora 2. But that > didn't work. I had a problem when I used Fedora 1 aswell, but then I > just followed a how-to in the Red Hat Linux Fedora bible to configure > the IDE CD-ROM for recording. > > Then I got into trouble, because this how-to is for kernel 2.4 and I > have 2.6.8. I didn't think of this and just tried to follow it step by > step. The result was that cdrecord does still not work, and now _I'm not > able to read CDs anymore!_ > > The things I have done (run) is: > > [root@localhost /]# modprobe -a ide-scsi You don't need ide-scsi to burn CDs on 2.6 kernels. > [root@localhost dev]# rm cdrom > [root@localhost dev]# ln -s scd0 cdrom > > How can I revert to the original configuration? So I at least am able to > read CDs? rm /dev/cdrom ln -s hdc /dev/cdrom > Information: > [root@localhost /]# dmesg | grep ^hd > hda: FUJITSU MHS2040AT, ATA DISK drive > hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hda: max request size: 128KiB > hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) > hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Also bear in mind that you'll need to be root to burn CDs with a 2.6.8 kernel. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
