Ok.. Before everyone starts postign telling me to do searches, I have. I have posted here before and got some help but have never got the Burner problem fixed.

here is my LILO

boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout="50"
message=/boot/message
lba32
default=dos

image="/boot/vmlinuz"
label="linux"
read-only
root="/dev/hda8"
append="hdb=ide-scsi"

other=/dev/hda1
label=dos

I added the append="hdb=ide-scsi" myself.

I cannot follow the guides I have seen. I do not understand them. I have followed them as well as possible and read all the terminalogy, despite all this I realize what a NEWB I am.

Pls help,
thanx

What kind off writer is it, whats your system like !!!!
Coould be helpful for others to help

What does your /etc/fstab say?
What burning program do you plan to use?
What error messages do you get?
Do a dmesg | less (or dmesg | more ) to see if it says anything about it at boot up.
lynch

You have to add "/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi" in "/etc/init.d/boot.local"

Like ronin24 pointed out, if you have the line in there right, something like this should appear in dmesg after the BIOS memory map:

zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=303 hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1200.094 MHz processor.

Also, near the end of dmesg, you should have a scsi bus scan for the ide device that looks like this:

scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: MT1316 Model: BDV212B Rev: 0.36
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray


Unlike what Ronin said though the modprobe line should go in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, boot.local is specific to SuSe.

Cheers,

Finegan

My etc/fstab is as follows.

/dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,exec,owner 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,noauto,ro,owner 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults,ro,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/dev/hda5 vfat defaults,user 1 2
# Last Modified: Tue Jul 23 21:33:19 2002
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dev/hda1 vfat defaults,user 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

It is a Liteonit 24x10x40.

I would liek to use the gtoaster one

dmesg shows ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
the last line in dmesg says hdd: driver not present

ronin I do not understand when u say i need to add /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi" in "/etc/init.d/
I have opened it up so I can edit it but I do not know where to place it though.

what I have gathered (pls correct me if I am wrong) is I do not have the drivers. I am gettign the educated guess from finegan's post where at the bottom I should have a driver of sorts.

is this becasue i need to add the module? Are modules drivers?

Thanx all for the great posts

Gonus

Okay, cool... that's it, whew. Yeah, ide-scsi is a module, with that lilo statement you're telling your kernel to treat hdd like a scsi device, but it doesn't know how without that module. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is the very last file run by init. (I'm almost certain thats the file in turbolinux, I know SuSe is unique in boot.local). Putting the modprobe line there should clear this up so that you see that scsi emulation probe at the end of "dmesg". If rc.local runs too late for the kernel to be happy then we'll figure out what to do to convince it that thing needs to go earlier. Offhand, what's turbo based on? If its slackware you may have a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, but I doubt that.

Cheers,

Finegan

Turbo is based on redhat I think not positive though. How would I make sure?

How would I go about adding that module? Am I on the right track by opening it up to edit it? If so do I just type it in? If not I need some more help.

Thanx again

If you have a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.local, then that's the right file, its just a bash script, sure edit that. Actually first try:

/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi

Then check:

dmesg

To see what the kernel thought of that. Then try adding that line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and see what happens.

Cheers,

Finegan

I think that I added the /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi correctly. This is the bottom part.


if test ! -f /etc/issue.net -o $RELEASEFILE -nt /etc/issue.net
then
echo "" > /etc/issue.net
echo "$RELEASEDATE" >> /etc/issue.net
echo "%s %r on $a %m (%h)" >> /etc/issue.net
echo "TTY: %t" >> /etc/issue.net
echo "" >> /etc/issue.net
fi
fi
/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi

Is this correct? cdrecord -scanbus shows my cd burner now. But it did that after I entered /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi. So what does editing rc.local do? I apologize for all the questions but I am still new thanx for all the help.

Gonus

OOps. thought i had it but i did a dummy burn. bad post

Adding that modprobe line to rc.local has it come up every time on boot.

Cheers,

Finegan

Ok. Now i am unable to access my cdrom. did I do something wrong?

/cheer

I got everything. Now I am good thanx all.

Gonus

Wait, what about me?

[root@localhost root]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

How do I fix it? Thanks.