The long and the short of it, for me, was as simple as adding this to the end of my kernel line in my grub.conf file. hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi That wound up creating the appropriate links between /dev/cdrom and the appropriate devices. On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, 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 > [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? > > 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) > hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: packet command error: error=0x54 > > [root@localhost /]# cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 > Jörg Schilling > Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support > Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. > Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to > <warly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. > Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in > this version. > scsidev: 'ATA' > devname: 'ATA' > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version > (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 > 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). > scsibus1: > 1,0,0 100) 'Slimtype' 'COMBO LSC-24081 ' '3MU4' Removable CD-ROM > 1,1,0 101) * > 1,2,0 102) * > 1,3,0 103) * > 1,4,0 104) * > 1,5,0 105) * > 1,6,0 106) * > 1,7,0 107) * > > > Thanks for any help. > > Kristian André > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe