where would iso and UDF be, under block devices or something ?

vexer,
when you compiled your kernel you must have missed and option.

IDE Options:
Include IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM support
SCSI Emulation support
Under SCSI Support:
SCSI Support
SCSI Generic Support

I'll double check my config later to see which were modules and which were compiled into kerenel.

Good luck..................

I have that whole part working cdrw loads into both sr0 and scd0 so that's fine, i have fstab pointing to sr0. i have emulation module, ide modules, sg module, sr_mod module.

I will recompile my kernel with UDF since I found it. But ISO is for what? ISO 9660?

ISO 9660 is the CD-Rom file system.

Ya need that.........

ok.. when i run cdrecord -scanbus i get the following:

Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg 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'.

in lilo.conf, i have added the hdd=ide-scsi bit.

rc.modules probes the following modules:

sr_mod
sg
ide-scsi

lsmod shows me the following about these modules:

sr_mod 14072 0 (unused)
sg 27916 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 8784 0

in /etc/fstab i have the following:

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

i made that /mnt/cdrom2 dir myself using mkdir..

dmesg |grep scsi produces the following:

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 noapic,
hdd=ide-scsi, mem=nopentium, idebus=66
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi,,
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices

less /proc/scsi/scsi produces 'Attached devices: none'

and finally, dmesg at boot shows:

hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

so i know the system at least knows it's there.. in a way.

...

my question is:

why can't i do anything with my cdrw-drive.. no mounting, no burning with
cdrecord... nothing.....

i hope i have provided enough info; if not, please let me know.

kind regards.

Hard to say, really ... I don't know why it doesn't
pick it up as a SCSI-device ...

However, if it did, the mount wouldn't work,
since after it's being picked up it would most likely
become scd0 rather than hdd :)

Cheers,
Tink

Neenee, I might suggest starting a new thread, posting stuff in other people threads IMO tend to lead to less responces.

It's up to you though.

How are you faring vexer?

ISO9660 (including Joliet & other extensions)
compiled as modules?

All go? :)

Cheers,
Tink

okidoki. i will start a new one; i posted in response to this one
as it had the same subject. and i do not want as much replies
as possible... i will settle for 1 reply and 1 view if that reply
solves the problem

Everything works for me now, to the exception of DAO burning because the program doesn't support my burner yet...

Everything else works.