Burner issues!!
 

Ok im having a little trouble here with my burner? After i switched to 2.6.7 i was told i had to remove the scsi emulation from liloconf so i did and rebooted. It worked for a few times then i rebooted for some reason and it didnt work ever since? Hmm i made sure my fstab pointed to the device /dev/hdc...I dont know what else to check? I commented out the line /sbin/????/scsi-ide? something like that from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules? i belive i posted a post awhile ago. And i did everything from that post that people told me to do. But i figured rather than posting to a post thats really really old ill just start a new one Sorry mods if thats a problem!!

Thank-you for your help!!

Matt

So burners not working huh? How were you exactly burning a cd? Using cdrecord I assume right? If you are trying to burn a cd with cdrecord it could be that your pointing it towards something like "dev=0,0,0" when instead you should be pointing it like this:

Hope this helps!

matt3333, could you be more specific as to what you mean by your burner is not working.

Is it:

A) There is no longer a device node for the burner (e.g. /dev/hdd is not being created)

B) The device is being seen, just whatever command you pass to cdrecord, it will not write to the drive. (If this is the case, wnaLinux's solution is correct for using IDE burning. If you're using something like K3B or XCDRoast for your burning, you will need to upgrade to the latest versions of these. If it's not that, or perhaps it just won't write for some other reason, what error messages is it giving?)

C) Something else?

Ok sorry im using gtoaster, it keeps saying cannot find /dev/pg* scsi-ide. When i looked in dmesg i noticed that my burner was at /dev/hdc so i fixed that in the preferences under gtoaster.

In my fstab my burner points to /dev/hdc i dont know why its doing this?

Ill try k3b and update that see if that works. Thank-you

Matt

Ok, I've played around a bit with Gnome Toaster for you, and to make it play nice with IDE burning, you need to do some simple fiddling.

Go to Preferences --> CDROM and Recorder Setup --> Whatever drive is your burner --> Click 'edit'

In the SCSI ID box, put /dev/hdc (The same data as whatever the device name is. Gnome Toaster simply uses that data as a variable to start cdrecord, it doesn't check what's in it. Changing that allows it to burn using the IDE interface as normal)

Eh voila, you should be back in business with Gnome Toaster. I'd still recommend giving K3B a whirl though if you're using KDE, as it's a nicer tool, IMHO. (Or I suppose you could use the command line cdrecord for fun...)

Ok so i put /dev/hdc in the scsi I.D and unchecked scsi interface for Dae. And nothing this is what gtoaster's out put is....ok it wont let me copy its out put. But its says cant open scsi device? Im going to update k3b and ill try that ill let you know how its goes!!! Thank-you for your reply!!

Matt

I use X-CD-ROASTER
I had that problem too. "X-CD" solved it. it detects now ATAPI as well as SCSI. I just choose ATAPI and it works perfect
http://www.linuxpackages.net/redirec...i686-1h3xx.tgz

Ok it appears to be a problem with my burner? Apparently its not a valid block device? When i type dmesg i see that its there it says "hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8523B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive"
so its there but i cant mount anything? so i dunno can someone help my trouble shoot it?

EDIT: Ok thank-you ill check that outg!!!!

Thank-you1!!!

Matt

Has ide-SCSI been completely purged from your system? Has any line saying 'append=hdc ide-scsi' (or something similiar to that) been commented out in /etc/lilo.conf and /sbin/lilo run, *before* restarting.

If after ensuring your lilo.conf is correct, running /sbin/lilo and then restarting, and the above command returns /dev/hdc, then ide-scsi is completely purged. If it still returns an error, then something isn't right and it's back to the drawing board (metaphorically speaking)

Yea, man. check it in dmesg. I also think you still have /dev/sr0. Because I do after update.
Perhaps, you could chmod your scsi emulation again:scratch:

Ok well i just tried k3b and it worked? I dunno why or how? But i just burned a cd? So anyways thank-you all for your help!! i really appricate it !! Thank-you!!!!

Matt

Ever considered going back to 2.4? From 2.6 we still see only fu##s

Well before i thought about it long and hard but relized the only problem i have is the burner crap and now it works...for how long tho? anyways i would but 2.6 is alright so its easyer to just stay with 2.6

Matt