I'm using slack 10.0
cdwriter worked.
bought a usb multi-card reader
got the card reader to work by rebuilding kernel
and adding a utility called sg_util
now my cdwriter doesn't work???
here is my out put of cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'Lexar ' 'Media Inc.SM/xD ' 'I18B' Removable Disk
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
here is the ouput of sg_map
/dev/sg0
/dev/sg1 /dev/sda
/dev/sg2 /dev/sdb
/dev/sg3 /dev/sdc
here is the output of dmesg |grep hdc
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Slack ro root=301 hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=8
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64

any help would be appreciated
Thank you
Phil

My guess is that you need to access the cdrw at /dev/sda (or possibly one of the others) instead of at /dev/hdc.

I can't really remember cdrecord as I use K3B now but don't you use the scsi address in the command, like:

cdrecord dev=0,0,0 ...

how's that work??

Please define "rebuild kernel." Did you:

1) Rebuild the 2.4 kernel with 10.0 to add in the support you wanted?

or

2) Download a 2.6 kernel and build that? (If this is the case, please state the kernel you're using - "uname -r").

I used the stock 2.4 kernel that came with slack 10.0 and
just turned on the "Probe all luns on scsi device".

Since this post I commented out the append="hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=8"
line and left just the "max_scsi_luns=8"
now I can access the writer but I haven't tryed writing to it yet.

thanks for any advice
Phil