Dear All,
I have two CD/RW devices installed on the IDE bus. Linux detects both devices succesfully, but fails to recognize both as CDRW drives. The two devicces are a Phillips 4401/72 4/4/32, and a Plextor 8/4/32.
I did a cdrecord -scanbus and it said only the 4X drive is a recording device. Here is the output

Note that BOTH devices are succesfully identified by Linux, as verified by YaST (I'm running SuSE Pro 8.0).

Here is a Screen cap of how YAST lists the devices:
http://www.geocities.com/demnanian/cdrws.jpg
(If this does not work due to geoshities being a pain in the ass, download it here)

Please help if you can

Do you see that first drive recognized as IDE and the second as SCSI? You have to turn ide-scsi emulation for your first drive (if you are using lilo hint - modify append statement in /etc/lilo.conf to include ide-scsi for the first drive in the same fashion as it is done for the second drive - append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" - I assumed the recognized drive was secondary slave /dev/hdd, and unrecognized according to the output of YAST is /dev/hdc)
P.S. Don't forget to run lilo to commit the changes - /sbin/lilo

I tried your tip. Thanx so much for it. I doubt it solvedmy problem though. Now I have two concerns if you can help me with them I would be much obliged

1.) What does this mess mean? And how can i resolve it?

2.) I have an Iomega Zip250 drive PARRALEL port. Repeat:PARALLEL port! I heard somewhere that It also uses ide-scsi emulation. How can I get it to work?


Thanx beforehand for all your help and patience. Much appreciated!

PS: Sorry for the late reply.

Never Mind. A simple restart made the two cd-rw drives work. Here is what it says now:
But Now I cannot get my zip drive to work. I looked in SuSE and it said the device name was /dev/lp0. I heard somewhere that PARRALEL port zip drives (like mine) require ide-scsi emulation. Is this true? If so please help me. I have set up my lilo.conf file to look like this:
This is only a portion of lilo.conf.There is more to the file than this...
And I also tried ziptool to no use. Here is what I tried:

Remmember that Yast2 insists the drive is /dev/lp0.



Can someone please help? Thanx beforehand.

I figured it out folks. I figure its my duty to inform others of my succes, should this prove useful.

NOTE:
Device: Iomega Zip 250 external PARRALEL PORT
Distro: SuSE Linux Professional 8.0
Kernel: 2.4.18
Date This succeeded: Sept 19th 2002

1.) You have to make sure your kernel supports Iomega products. Luckily my SuSE 8.0 Pro automaticlalysupported them. If this is not the case you would have to recompile your kernel

2.) You must make sure you have the two drivers lp.o and imm.o You can find the .c files for these on the net. Do a simple google search.

3.) you muct load these drivers. To do this do an insmod lp followed by an insmod imm. You should hear your zip drive clicking as it picks it up.

4.) You must mount the device. Create /mnt/zip (if it doesn't exist already). Then edit your /etc/fstab file with 2 lines like these:

/dev/sda4 /mnt/zipf32 vfat auto,umask=000,quiet,user 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/zipext2 ext2 auto,umask=000,quiet,user 0 0

5.) Mount the device as either mount /mnt/zipf32 or mount /mnt/zipext2

Good Luck.

Hey I like the way you put the "heading" on this. makes it look like an actual bulletin or something

Glad you got it fixed though

Cool

lol MasterC. I'm glad I got it fixed. I am thinking of writing up my success in an "english" mini howto. Most Zip drive how tos out there talk only of SCSI and IDE, and tell you nthing about parralel besides how to mount it.

Cool, then you too will be GPL'd along with Chris (Acid_Kewpie)

Be sure to let us all know if it gets put in LDP or something.

Cool

This should be, "Then edit your /etc/fstab file with 2 lines like these:"
Putting those lines in lilo.conf will bork (technical term for fubar) lilo.

bork = technical term for fubar, ba ha ha ha, is that in the LQ glossary?

No, but you get some interesting links when you google it, mostly about a certain swedish chef.
<offtopic>I read an interesting google fact the other day, enter "go to hell" (with the quotes) and click on the "I'm feeling lucky" button and see where you end up at.</offtopic>

LOL. Aussie you are absolutely right. What was I thinking. I was intending fstab but somehow I typed lilo.conf hehe. I'm only human! I've edited it. Thanx for ther heads up, much appreciated.

Hey Guys, If I write a mini-mini-mini Parralel Port Zip 250 howto would you guys help me with it? I've never done such a thing before, so I want it to look professional enough for a beginner in the feild like me.

Oh I almost forgot,
How can I have things set up to automatically load lp and imm at boot time instead of having to manually insmod them every time?

Have a look at /etc/rc.config, I think thats what suse uses for loading modules at boot, you might want to double check on their support site because I think there is more involved in suse than just adding the module to rc.config.