FC2 cannot see my CD Writer

Linner · 06-02-2004, 03:00 AM

hey guys!

i have a very big problem here...after so much frustration after upgrading from fc1, i decided to fresh install FC2, everything was fine, then i installed xcdroast, thats when i realised that my Asus cd writer is not recognized by xcdroast.

my question is how can i manually installed the device? the are so many dev names in /dev and having a problem which one is for USBs

here is my modprobe.conf for reference.
alias eth0 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

Linner · 06-04-2004, 06:02 AM

still not working.

Kristijan · 06-04-2004, 08:16 AM

Hi, ill do my best to help you with my limited knowledge of FC2.

First things first is to see if your CDRW is recognized at boot. Try something like this...

Code:

[root@neo mnt]# dmesg | grep hd
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: JLMS XJ-HD165H, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-52246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
 hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW CD-MRW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)

As you see from the about output:

hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: JLMS XJ-HD165H, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-52246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdc is my cd burner. Now Fedora created a symbolic link in /dev called cdrom1 for me which points to my /dev/hdc. This might be the same for you. Try this...

Code:

[root@neo root]# ls -l /dev/cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 May 20 17:12 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/hdc

If you see a similar output, your on the right track and you burner is being seen fine.

I use K3B, but im sure there is an option somewhere in XCDROAST which allows you to select your reading/writing devices. You might just have the incorrect entry.

EDIT: Ok, re-reading your post, I see that you have mentioned USB, if your burner is USB, your device might be something like /dev/sda1. Just taking a stab in the dark here though. Try to substiture "dmesg | grep hd" for "dmesg | grep sd"

Good Luck
Kristijan

sowens · 06-04-2004, 09:53 AM

Hi,

For what its worth, I had much the same problem after I upgraded from FC1 to FC2. I didn't update my bootloader during the upgrade and the entry hdc=IDE-SCSI was still in my bootloader.

All I did was delete the "hdc=IDE-SCSI" option & FC2 happily recoginsed my CDW after a reboot.

Hope that helps

Stephen

Linner · 06-07-2004, 01:22 AM

thank you guys (Kristijan and sowens) you're such a great a help! its working now.

hahaha how stupid i am on trying all the /dev/usbs for almost a week..and then you came and give me idea at least to sneak on my fstab. it is there on cdrom1 linked to /dev/scd0...tsk tsk

again THANKS.