how do i enable ide-scsi for my cd burner
Ive been tyring to get my new cd burner to work with redhat 9, and k3b and im having some problems. when i open up k3b it says "cdrdao 1.1.7 does not suppport ATAPI" and it tells me to enable ide-scsi. this is probably a simple question, but im kinda new to linux so im not real sure what to do. thanks for your help!
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I think you may be able to solve this by putting a line into lilo.
Below I have written a sample for you to look at. The line you should put in is the one that says append. Replace ' hdc ' with whatever your cd-rw is. Let me know if this works. image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-ac4 label="Linux read-only append="hdc=ide-scsi" What Distro are you using? Do you have Grub or LILO? Peace, Whitehat |
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I am using grub, will it still work?
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i tried putting that line (hdc=ide-scsi) at the end of my grub.conf file, but it didnt change anything. neither k3b nor xroast will work. is their anything else i could try. like what exactly is the problem? thanks
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open a terminal, su to root and type:
cdrecord -scanbus post the output here. |
alright, well heres what i got, it doesnt look to good though. did i do it wrong?
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[root@localhost /]# cdrecord -scanbus |
looks like the scsi driver is not being loaded ( I think)... any reference to hdc in dmesg with the new grub setup ?
dmesg | grep hdc see what that that tells you, also look for any any reference to ide-scsi in dmesg... cdrecord -vv -scanbus may give more info as well. I'm not sure if that one will work as I'm sitting at my mac right now. :-) |
i could be wrong, but:
unless you enabled scsi emulation for your cdrom in the kernel, you cannot treat your cdrom as a scsi device just by adding that line to the bootloader. also, scsi devices will not point at /dev/hdXXX, they will point to /dev/sXXX (unless of course, you're redirecting twice). most likely doing an "ls -l /dev/cdrom" will point you to /dev/hdc, while it sshould be pointing somewhere to /dev/srXXX. |
is there any way i could just update the software so that i can burn using ide?
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i don't think you can burn CDs using ide on the 2.4.* series kernels.
this is possible only in the 2.6.0 kernel that just came out. |
no:
burning can only be done by treating your IDE as a scsi device make sure you kernel has been compiled w/ scsi support. Unless you want to take Berhanie's advice and upgrade your kernel to 2.6 |
Hello,
Having a few problems with this too. For me i had to add the append= line at the beginning of lilo before the boot device and then it enabled scsi emulation no problem. But i still can't burn as a user yet. I hope to get it worked out today. See the following links --and search the slackware forum using "k3b" quite a few posts about this and how to tell if you have the scsi drivers already too. Hope this helps::: the first link tells how to append grub and lilo http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardwar..._to_Linux.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...-lnxw12BurnCDs Peace, Boutros |
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