James Pifer wrote: > > I have done scanbus and it sees my drive as 1,0,0. I have not tried > doing /dev/hdc from cdrecord. hdc=noprobe did not work for me. Saw no > cdrom device at all, and no devices like /dev/scd0. > In that case, your best bet is not to use ether hdc=ide-scsi or hdc=noprobe. Your CD-ROM is PIDE drive. In my case, it is a SATA drive, but the interface emulate a PIDE interface. (But I do not get DMA when in the PIDE mode under Linux.) > If I do hdc=ide-scsi I get these devices: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom -> scd6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom-sr0 -> scd0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom-sr1 -> scd1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom-sr2 -> scd2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom-sr3 -> scd3 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom-sr4 -> scd4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom-sr5 -> scd5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 7 11:43 cdrom-sr6 -> scd6 > > Maybe that explains why I get 6 icons when a disc automounts, but why is > it creating all of these and not just one? Which one do I point vmware > player at? > I am not sure why you get all seven devices. It is possible that there is a bug in the ide-scsi driver with some hardware. Because most people are no longer using ide-scsi for CD writers, it could go undetected. If you are going to use ide-scsi, then /dev/scd6 is the device you would give VMWare. But you would be better off not using ide-scsi. > If I don't use either hdc=noprobe or hdc=ide-scsi and try to use > cdrecord I get thie error: > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > scsidev: '1,0,0' > scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 > cdrecord: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character. Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. > cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. > Try using dev=ATA:1,0,0 instead of dev=1,0,0 > Using K3B it did in fact record an iso without any additional kernel > parameters. Looking at the debug for k3b it uses dev=/dev/hdc, so as > someone else said that must work ok. I'm ok with using that. > > Occasionally I use webmin to burn CDs so I need to figure out how to > change it to use /dev/hdc instead of /dev/cdrom. > > Either way I'll use k3b for now. > > Thanks for the responses. > > James > When you remove the ide-scsi option, the link should get changed so that /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/hdc, so you should not need to change the settings in Webmin. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
