On Mon, 23 May 2005 01:18:47 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote: > The burner is an atapi compatible burner and in earlier kernel > incarnations needed the hdd=ide-scsi parameter on the grub.conf kernel > line or as an append parameter in lilo. This is not needed since FC3 and ought not be added. > I'll get some system output for > the next message I send on this subject. I can tell you now that the > drive without hdd=ide-scsi line in grub.conf requires dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 on > the cdrecord command line with -scanbus if it's recognized at all. You should be able to use -dev=/dev/hdd and -dev=/dev/cdwriter (with the last one being a link to /dev/hdd). > Unfortunately attempting a burn with atapi mode in effect just produces > error piles and coasters. Note that there is "cdrecord -dummy" option to run tests without actually writing CDs. > Changing speed has no effect on error reduction > either. When this was working with earlier kernel versions I had modprobe > ide_scsi; modprobe sg; modprobe sr_mod; in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and was able > to talk to the cd burner with /dev/sr1. This sounds wrong also for earlier kernels. Only really older versions of Linux [much older than Red Hat Linux 9] used this. -- Fedora Core release Rawhide (Rawhide) - Linux 2.6.11-1.1329_FC4 loadavg: 1.08 1.10 1.16
