ok, I was hoping that this "new" and "improved" version of redhat would be a little better than the earlier ones... maybe someone could help me out? My main problem at the moment is with xcdroast (cdrecord).

1) every time i start up as user "sarah", no matter how many times i've set the configuration from root (also adding privelages to user sarah), it still gives me "must log in as root" window.

2) no matter what I put in /etc/lilo.conf, only ONE ide-scsi emulated cd device will come up... there should be two. (it's not just xcdroast... cdrecord -scanbus won't see it either).

3) I started burning a cd, and it did about 15% of it, then spit it out. I clicked on "save output" and it doesn't. The log that xcdroast is supposed to use don't work either.

cdrecord and xcdroast both work great on my LFS, I can write cd's on the fly with two ide cdroms, and it actually burns the whole cd.

Is there something with redhat that they don't let you load two scsi emulated devices?

Any feedback would be great.... i'm trying to convert a windows user.

I really don't have any answers for you but I had a hard time with RedHat 7.2 when I first installed it. The first time I used LILO and during install didn't add the hdd=ide-scsi line for my CD-Rom but it was already added for hdc my cd-r/rw drive And I never got cdrecord (xcdroast is what I use) to detect my hdd cdrom drive I finally tried GRUB and everything worked perfect both drives are detcted as SCSI drives (both are IDE actually). Also I have the same problem with permissions when as user I get the message that I must have root password to start xcdroast. I haven't really had much time to attempt to correct this problem yet.

I bet when you get things working right you can convert that windows user cause Linux rules.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, I'm still learning myself

Bubba169

I had a very similar problem under SuSE. Once the ide-scsi support works (you may have to load it manually: modprobe ide-scsi), you have to fiddle with the permissions on cdrecord, mkisofs and various other cdrecording software which xcdroast relies on. There is a file called readme.nonroot in the documentation for the xcdroast package. This tells you how to do it, and it works too.

I'm afraid that I don't know where Red Hat puts the docs for .rpm packages, but under SuSE they are in /usr/share/doc/packages/xcdroast-0.9*

Oh, and eventually the only way I could get ide-scsi to work was to re-install the kernel. Wasn't too painful, as SuSE comes with a few pre-compiled. Does Red Hat?

Adam_boz.

First, just like bubba169 said, you need you add those lines either in Lilo or Grub depending on which one you are using. Let us know which one you are using. Second, you need to go to the www.xcdroast.org website. Download the latest version of Xcdroast and upgrade the software. Get the rpm and do a rpm -U xxxxx.rpm

In that same website there is a very nicesly explained How-to to emulate all your drivers as Scsi drives so that Xcdroast is able to read them.

The problem with your cd being spitted out too soon, I believe is the following. You need to find out exactly what is the buffer memory in your Cdburner. The safest bet, however, is to put the value of the buffer size to 1 megabyte. Then it will work with no problems.

After you download the newest version of Xcdroast, you will probably see a new section, where you need to enable the regular user accounts, so that you don't need to put the root password everytime. It's ok.
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