Hi all,

I am installing Sony CRX175A on Intel Pentium4 running RH 7.2, with kernal 2.4.17 .

Here is my configuraton:

ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> SCSI emulation support

SCSI support ---> SCSI support
SCSI support ---> SCSI disk support
SCSI support ---> SCSI CD-ROM support

USB support ---> Support for USB
USB support ---> Preliminary USB device filesystem
USB support ---> UHCI (Intel PIIX4 VIA...) support
^^^^^

When I plugin cd-rw when the system is running, /var/log/message give me
information:
Apr 3 10:48:13 hera kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 5
Apr 3 10:48:13 hera /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB product 54c/73/1107
Apr 3 10:48:14 ...

In my harware browser: Sony CD_RW CRX175A is no CD_ROM dirves list, not on USB Devices list.


Your information will be appreciated greatly.

Grace

try running this

cdrecord -scanbus

Is it a USB CD-R/RW? If so, I believe there is no support for such as of yet.

Hi Divid,

I login as root but I can not run cdrecord -scanbus,. with error '
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driv'

[root@hera dev]# ls -l scd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 11, 0 Aug 30 2001 sc
[root@hera dev]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driv
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Ma
[root@hera dev]#


ls /proc/bus:
[root@hera linux-2.4.17]# ls -l /proc/bus
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 4 16:48 pccard
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Apr 4 16:48 pci
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Apr 3 14:32 usb
[root@hera linux-2.4.17]#


Thank you very much,

Grace

Hello, are you there is no support for Sony CRX175A in RH7.2 with kernel 2.4.17, can you give me further infomation. If it does not support, I give up early.

Thank you very much,

Grace

I hate to keep saying this, but in my opinion USB just plain sucks.

As I can see from specs for Sony CRX175A it isn't USB, it is plain ATAPI IDE CD-R/RW, then I don't understand what the problem is with USB crap and what it means when you said Are you using some sort of PCMCIA card on laptop to plugin the CD-R/RW?
It can give you a hint
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/feenberg.html

so maybe it means Used Slightly Broken

LOL

Just kidding

Hello experts,

then I don't understand what the problem is with USB crap and what it means when you said
quote:When I plugin cd-rw when the system is running

I mean that when the computer is on, and OS is running, I take off cdrw and plug in again.


Now, I have mounted my Sony cdrwCRX175A, here is my fstab:

[root@hera etc]# more /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/db3 /db3 ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0
[root@hera etc]#

/mnt/cdrom1 is my sony cdrw, it is read and writable.

If I use an regular cd(something in there). I can read it. but when I mount an writeable empty cd, it gives me some error message:

[root@hera etc]# mount /mnt/cdrom1
mount: block device /dev/cdrom1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom1,
or too many mounted file systems

Your idea will be appreciated gretly.

Grace

You cannot mount an empty CD

You need to just get a cdrecord program installed and try it.

I'm not sure which one if any will work with the drive you have.