On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Paul Howarth wrote: > 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. Apparently, under kernel 2.6.8-1.251, k3b had trouble with IDE drives. X-CD-Roast complains that running it against ATAPI burners can be problematic. Running my IDE DVD -/+ RW under SCSI emulation does work wonderfully. -- 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
