I just purchased a Yamaha 20x10x40 IDE burner to replace my old Yamaha SCSI burner, I seem to be having problems getting it to burn anything, can someone point me in the right direction? I am using Redhat 7.2 w/ Grub.

Thanks

if you installed it manually, then you'll not have scsi emulation set up. yeah you replace it with IDE, but hey, you still pretend it's scsi anyway...

ok, so assuming you're using lilo, you need to add a line in the append for each linux menu choice:

append=" hdc=ide-scsi"

assuming your burner is on hdc. this will then create a pretend scsi device (probably /dev/scd0, mine is) which is your burner device. The easiest way to see if it worked is to do 'cdrecord --scanbus' and it should give you all the info.

If you're not on lilo, then there's an equivalent for grub would be

kernel (hd2,0) /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi

all the append parameter does is stick whatever text you put in there onto the end of the boot option, so instead of typing 'linux' it'd make it into 'linux hdc=scsi' just like any other normal parameter.

Some people seem to have some other emulation stuff in their /etc/modules.conf but i haven't and it works fine.