I have a dell gx260 with fedora core 1, I switched out the standard cdrom for a dell cdrw drive. The cdrw came from a dell machine so I do not know the exact type. From reading other treads I have done the following;

added the following line to both the /etc/grub.conf and /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda
hdc=ide-scsi

below is the output from the command cdrecord -scanbus

# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

below is the output from the command dmesg |grep hdc

# dmesg |grep hdc
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hdc: _NEC CD-RW NR-7800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

below is my /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


I am able to mount regular cd's so I am fairly certain everything with the drive is working properly. Thanks

After reading the post right below this one I saw the following that worked:
cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus

found my cdrw, now i run the following

cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 /root/xmltv_prereq-7.tar
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : '_NEC '
Identifikation : 'NR-7800A '
Revision : '1.0B'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 16 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Turning BURN-Free off
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 36884480/36884480 (18010 sectors).

it appears it successfully burned, however when I attempt to mount the cd i get the following

mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems



any suggestions? Thanks