cd-rw and jumper settings
 

I currently have 2 cd drives on the same IDE channel

When DVD is master and RW is slave the cd-writing progs can only see the DVD (same for cdrecord -scanbus), when the RW is master and DVD is slave only the Writer can be seen, (thus no disk copying).
So i set the jumpers to cable select on both drives- (this is the state they where in when the system shipped, and the state that XP has no problem with).

Do I need to put them on separate IDE channels to get both drives visible?

many thanks

no, you'll only have ide-scsi emulation enabled for the master device on that channel. open up /etc/lilo.conf, assuming you're using lilo, and you'll see "append = "hdc=ide-scsi" " jsut add the same again to the end of that line for hdd. adn run lilo as root, and reboot

er..

sorry about this
here is my lilo.conf

not sure where to add the extra line

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
ignore-table
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe

changeto

ah

most 'ospitable of you

thankyou