hi all - i'm trying to install an ide dvd player to an already existing mandrake 8.2 system. i have an ide burner already running fine via scsi emu, and i need to fet the dvd goin under emu. so i installed it as sec slave and my gui hardware tools saw it fine (compac dvd....), but it did not exists on the scsi bus (cdrecord -scanbus showed burner only).

so i edited lilo.conf and changed all the "append hdc=ide-scsi" lines to "append hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi", and rebooted. the only thing on the scsi bus now is the dvd! i THINK the issue is either 1) i changed the dvd to cable select before rebooting or 2) the wierd way mandrake sets up scsi emu devs in /dev.

can anyone help? thanks!

This might sound like a daft question, but why do you want to scsi-emulate your DVD? If you want to watch movies and stuff with Xine/MPlayer, they work fine with atapi drives without scsi emu.

hmmm....well i solved my prob - set jumper settings for the drives were picky (didnt like cable select).

as far as scsi-emu for the dvd, i think that is required (newer distros set that up pretty transparently tho). could someone verify that is or is not true?

dvd = scsi emu or none?

thanks for the feedbak

i have found a lot pf problems are caused with dvd under scsi emulation. i wouldn't recommend it at all.

I watch movies all the time with Ogle and my DVD works fine as an IDE, not emu-scsi like my cd-burner... If you find differant let me know, so that I can switch!!

I've recently read in a Linux mag that DVD players shouldn't be used with scsi emulation - something to do with DMA and loss of data speed affecting playback of DVDs.

BTW - I installed a DVD rom drive to Mdk 8.2 - and I'm pleased to say that the horror stories in various forums about device problems didn't apply! Mdk assigned raw devices etc etc and it runs as sweet as anything....

So far .....

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