SCSI Emulation

sxa · 07-03-2005, 08:43 PM

Good evening to all of the LQ posters. I have not posted here in a long while, since its been a long while since I have tried to do anything productive with my slackware machine. I have recently decided to run a non-productive machine with slackware, and run Fedora Core Three on this machine. The problem is that I have to be able to burn the ISO's onto a CD. I have started topics about this before, but only now do I really understand what my problem is. My toshiba drive is an IDE drive, apparently then I need SCSI Emulation. I should seriously get a new title under my username, I am no guru. I have never done SCSI Emulation before, and I am un-aware how to do this. Modprobe does not work on this computer, or perhaps I am doing it wrong. I have kernel 2.4.46, and not sure if it even supports SCSI emulation.

If anyone has done SCSI emulation in slackware and can offer me some assistance, I would certainly appreciate that.

Thank you all in advance for any help that might be given!

Tinkster · 07-03-2005, 09:08 PM

You're definitely way ahead of your peers, I'm still on a
2.4.31 kernel ;}

You could try a
modprobe ide-scsi
to see whether that module has been built.

Check
dmesg | grep -C 4 CD

Cheers,
Tink

P.S.: Changing your title is your choice

sxa · 07-03-2005, 09:24 PM

Thank you for your quick reply

Here is the output from the dmesg|grep -C 4 CD

Code:

stevex@maestro:~$  dmesg|grep -C 4 CD
hda: IC35L080AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST36531A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03b349c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1202, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CREATIVE CD5233E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
--
hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hdb: 12706470 sectors (6506 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
--
input0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Trackball on usb1:3.0
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:11.2-1 address 3
hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1, assigned address 4
input0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Trackball on usb1:4.0
Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
sbpcd-0 [01]:  sbpcd.c v4.63 Andrew J. Kroll <ag784@freenet.buffalo.edu> Wed Jul 26 04:24:10 EDT 2000
sbpcd-0 [02]:  Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)...
sbpcd-0 [03]:  Scanning 0x340 (SoundBlaster)...
sbpcd-0 [04]:  No drive found.
--
sbpcd-0 [02]:  Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)...
sbpcd-0 [03]:  Scanning 0x340 (SoundBlaster)...
sbpcd-0 [04]:  No drive found.
mcd: initialisation failed - No mcd device at 0x300 irq 11
SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.
SJCD: Resetting: .......... reset failed, no drive found.
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000340-00000343>
cm206 cdrom driver $Revision: 1.5 $ can't find adapter!

Looks to be like it is seing the Toshiba burner. So why is is that K3B set-up only shows 2 read drives (my 52X Creative CD-Rom Drive and the Toshiba "DVD-Rom", though the DVD drive is accuatly a combo drive and also writes CD's.

As for my title.. guru makes me sound important.. HAHA!

Tinkster · 07-03-2005, 09:27 PM

And what did the
modprobe ide-scsi
give you?

Run that FIRST, and then do the dmesg.

Cheers,
Tink

sxa · 07-03-2005, 09:42 PM

It can't find the modprobe command

Code:

stevex@maestro:~$ modprobe ide-scsi
-sh: modprobe: command not found

Tinkster · 07-03-2005, 09:46 PM

/me coughs ...

Try as root?

And you should definitely get rid of that Guru... ;}

Cheers,
Tink

sxa · 07-04-2005, 01:15 AM

Just an update on what I have done. I remembered that on a different Hard Drive I had SuSe installed, and so I used my burned in SuSe to burn the FC3 Images with K3B. Currently downloading Slack-In-Tosh for playing with on a spare mac here. Not sure how that will work out. Thank you for your help. The reason I did not get get the SCSI emulator working, is I would have had to edit lilo.conf, I don't have lilo.conf since I do not use, nor did I install lilo. I just use the CD's as "Boot Disks".

Thanks again for your help... I should remove the guru, BUT I like people to think I know what I am doing. Its pretty sad though when I come here and act totally lost, then you know I don't really know what all I am doing. I should go back to windoze HAHA!

Thats it, just wanted to update you, and thank you for the help! I am currently installing Slack on a spare PC.. and posting this From SuSe. When said and done I am going to set up Lilo this time on FC3 so I can go back and forth from SuSe and FC3.

Tinkster · 07-04-2005, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Freakygeek55
The reason I did not get get the SCSI emulator working, is I would have had to edit lilo.conf, I don't have lilo.conf since I do not use, nor did I install lilo. I just use the CD's as "Boot Disks".

How about (on the line where you chose the kernel from the CD)
just doing an "hdc=ide-scsi", no lilo required.

Cheers,
Tink

sxa · 07-05-2005, 09:59 PM

When I installed slackware 10 on the old emachines I have I did that. Except for the fact that the thing has a celeron processor and is so slow, it works fine. My main desktop will soon be running FC3/SuSe, if I partition it correctly, and don't end up deleting my SuSe partition.

You ask.. why go from slackware to SuSe 9.1 and FC3? A lot of people say that those are n00bieware, I disagree. They are stable and they function well. I started with Red Hat, and used 7.1, 7.3, and 9 before even trying Slackware. I got slackware 9 installed and I messed with that for awhile, then at the local LUG I picked up copies of 10. That was back in August of 2004. I have been using Linux since 2002. I used slackware for about a year. Though I did most everything the easy way out, I have enjoyed the experience. Slackware 10 just is not user friendly enough for me. I am hoping on using the case that I have on the emachines and building a new slackware box running the newest version. One of these days I will try linux on this old PPC Mac 5500.

Sorry.. I get way off topic..

Thanks for your help!