Hi,

I have a LG CDROM and a LG DVD/CD-RW Combo installed on the machine but I cannot manage to record directly from CDROM to CD-RW as people usually do in MsWindows.

Both are reconised by the system. I can read from both using the file managers (in GNOME or KDE) so they are installed.

The various burners recognise the CDWriter but they don't show the CDROM as a source, only the harddisk.

Is this normal? In order to copy a CD directly to a new CD I must always copy contents to harddisk first? If not, what is needed to configure it.

A propos... I'm a , so detailed info could be required.

Thanks in advance.

Lopo

OK, if you are using lilo as a bootmanager, do this -
edit the file /etc/lilo.conf (as root).
There is a line that begins
append= ............
on that line you will see something like hdc=ide-scsi
You will need to add an almost identical entry, of the type hdx=ide-scsi
hda=primary master
hdb=primary slave
hdc=secondary master
hdd=secondary slave
So, if your writer is sec master and your cdrom is sec slave, you must make the line look like this -
append="quiet noapic devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"
The additional stuff in my line may not be in yours - don't copy that, just the part about ide-scsi.
Once you've done that, in a terminal, as root, type lilo - that will activate the changes. Then you need to reboot, and you should be sorted.

Thanks!

It worked fine

Now both drivers are visible to Recorders.

I will test with some "Chinese Tea Ballads" and GnomeToaster (didn't managed to configure K3b )

Lopo
PS: get an Affero account. It's free

It worked.

Thank you. Thank you and thank you

There's no smilie for jumping for happiness so I can't show it here

1,

Lopo

Hi again!

Now I have another problem...

Although I can hear my music CDs and Write to the CDWriter, I stop having access to them to read data using the file managers

If you can help once more I had here below my lilo.conf and my fstab
Of course this is not PHP code but it was the only way to preserve some formating

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Lopo

Yep, the problem is in fstab. Your cdrom is now /dev/scd1 not /dev/hdd. Change that line in fstab, and all should be fine, I hope.

Just a thought... shouldn't it be: dev/hdc?? is secondary master

Hi,

I have:[list=a][*]HD which is /dev/hda [*]LG CDROM 52x which is and IDE CDROM configured as secondary master in /dev/hdc (/mnt/cdrom)[*]LG DVD/CDRW Combo which is and IDE CDROM configured as secondary slave in /dev/hdd (/mnt/cdrom2)[/list=a]

And the problem now is that GnomeToaster can read music CDs and also read data from CDROM and write to CDROM2 without any fuss, but...
I cannot read or reach CDROM or CDROM2 with any filemanager or even using command line with root user

I will try your option of reverting /dev/scd1 to /dev/hdd but I don't think that the problem is here because I cannot use /dev/hdc also (except to hear music CDs)

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Lopo

Look it the output of lsmod to see what modules are loading.
You need:
ide-scsi
scsi_mod