Covered, i know: CDRW install under RH9

naloxone · 10-08-2003, 12:05 PM

Plextor 24/10/40 CDRW drive, Red Hat 9, kernel 2.4.20-20.9smp

Any of the howtos i've found so far all reference modprobe which i apparently don't have (command not found), and give instructions to edit LILO, which is not GRUB.

Quote:

[root@linuxnewb /]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jrg 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'.

Forgive the repost, but i haven't found anything that works.

ehdwuld · 10-08-2003, 06:00 PM

/sbin/modprobe

when I can't find a particular command
type as root
locate <command>

in redhat you have to give the path to some commands

keeps newbies from breaking stuff

/usr/bin/cdrecord

TheRealDeal · 10-08-2003, 06:10 PM

Hi,

All you should need to do to get your CDRW working is add the following argument to the end of your kernel line in your grub.conf file 'hdc=ide-scsi'

This is my kernel line in my /etc/grub.conf........

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi

Look for the line similar in your grub.conf file and add the switch to the end. After you change it, do 'grub-install /dev/hda' (or whatever hard drive it is) and reboot.

This should allow you to use the CDRW. Log in as root, and do 'cdrecord -scanbus'

Hopefully you see something like....

0,0,0 0) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-40125S ' 'ZS05' Removable CD-ROM

If you do, you should be able to burn.

>Craig