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I am trying to add anew CD-RW in addition to the Liteon CDROM already present in my Dell PowerEdge 400SC. I have no idea what jumper settings to use, which part of the cable to connect to both drives (end or middle), nor which files to set for configuation purposes.
ok i will give this a shot, and i am going to try and make some ascii art if you will and explain ...
Code:
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IDE CONNECTOR POWER CONNECTOR
now thats my example of the back of you cdrom, now you have to note that i bolded the right side of the ide connector and the left side of the power connector ... the reason for that is, is because when you are pluggin in the cables make sure the red wire in the IDE cable is in that position, and make sure the red wire in the power is positioned ....
as of where on the ide cable ... it don't matter .. as long as its plugged in ..
some newbs will try to say the end is primary and the middle is slave, or something silly like that, but thats not the case, and thats what the jumpers are for ...
and as of the jumper, you just have to see what the device is set at in which is on the cable where you are pluggin in the new burner ... i assume you will be putting it on the cable that the cdrom is presently at, and i will assume its on its own cable right now, and more so set as master, so that means you will set the jumper on the burner to slave .... but you will just double check the screen when your computer turns on and see where your devices are presently connected to and then go from there ...
but as of the new burner and what the letters stand for, they are typically set up like so:
M S C
A L S
where ....
MA = master
SL = slave
CS = cable select
and sometimes they are plainly written out in whole words, but sometimes it looks like i showed above ...
as of configuration. .. i have never seen anyone actually have to configure a new cdrom/burner or whatever it may be since the windows 95 days and earlier ... so typically when you plug this sucker in, it should be good to go ....
if there is problems then jsut come back and state what it is ....
i hope this somewhat helps ...
good luck!
1) No idea if kudzu is running or not. Do I check simply by doing a "ps -eaf" or...?
2) Here's the latests...
It seems to me that I have installed the CD-RW drive. Right now, I have two drives in the system. A regular old CD-ROM and this CD-RW drive. My CD-ROM (/dev/hdd) can read CDs just fine (audio or data).
I have tried to do writes to my CD-RW (/dev/hdc) to no avail.
(I believe that I have set the jumpers to slave for the CD-ROM and master for the CD-RW...I did this before I saw your note, DrOzz, but thanks!)
I'm pretty sure that those are in fact the right /dev files because if I do
"eject /dev/hdc" or "eject /dev/hdd" the drive I would expect to eject does.
When trying to burn mp3's in k3b, sometimes (ie. rarely) the burn seems to go okay. By this I mean that all the tracks are written and seem to be the right length.
However, they're nothing but static. Also, the very end of the songs--probably the last half second or so--seems to sound right.
I get the message "not all files have been buffered".
I ran k3b_setup and it recognized my CD-RW as the drive to write to.
I've also noticed that the programs tccat, tcdecode, tcextract, tcscan, tcprobe, and transcode all seem to be missing.
One last thought...I'm not 100% sure that my CD-RW is installed properly. Any tests I can run to see if it is?
(I've tried other burning programs as well to no avail.)
Distribution: Slack Puppy Debian DSL--at the moment.
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Go to the /dev directory and look for /dev/sg your CDRW should be linked as a generic scsi block device--not as /dev/hdd. Even though commands to /dev/hdd will get a response from the drive.
In your /mnt directory there should be either a second cd-rom entry or better yet a cdburner directory.
I haven't played with my SuSE for quite a while--I admit it.
They have the best web support of any of the distros.
If you bought the box set as retail you have free support from SuSE for a few months or 3 incidents. Check and see if you still have some free support left.
Else, search their english-online user groups. They are fantastic.
SuSE has a nifty means of adding package groups if you didn't install them, read your docs. If you purchased the distro--they have the best and most understandable (and very comprehensive) docs anywhere. I still use my SuSE docs all of the time to track down problems on any form of Linux/Unix. They are that good.
In your lilo.conf or grub.conf there should be an entry which has /dev/hdd="ide-scsi" or something very similar.
fire up a console: cdrecord --scanbus
You should get an entry about the cd burner.
Also, I'm way behind the times, I haven't played with kb3. And am unfamiliar with: "I've also noticed that the programs tccat, tcdecode, tcextract, tcscan, tcprobe, and transcode all seem to be missing."
Again, check your docs. I don't have the newer ones, mine date back to 7.0 professional. If the new ones are anywhere as good as the old ones, they are phenomenal.
You need to do some "bathroom reading". The throne of thought is always the best place to start if you have documentation on paper. Well, that is where I end up reading docs anyway--it seems I never have the time to read them anywhere else. When on the computer, I have a tendancy to "scan" paper documentation, and don't take the time to actually "read" it.
I'm a big bathroom reader myself. I kill more trees than I should just for that purpose.
As far as your suggestions go...here's what I know:
I do have an sg entry. I'm not in front of my box right now, but I believe the entry is sg0 (or maybe sg1). Anyway, that's the device entry that k3b recognizes when it searches for a CD-RW device.
I do get an entry when I fire up cdrecord, which is why I can actually do writes (albeit screwed up writes) to the CD I am trying to burn.
I've already looked at SuSE docs. They're of no hep this time around (though I agree, they're very good overall.)
(As far as the grub stuff goes, I already fought that battle...had to build in ide-scsi and change the grub configuation file. For what it's worth, I don't think it's actually called grub.conf. I'd tell you the filename if it was in front of me, but I don't recall off hand. It's some other file I think, but it's basically the line that boots linux nonetheless that you're referring to, I believe...right?)
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