Hi folks,

I have in been trying to burn some CD's the last weeks, but all burner prrograms give almost the same message, that I have to enable SCSI emulation.

My last atempt was with K3b and it gives following recommendation:
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cdrdao 1.1.7 does not support ATAPI
The configured version of cdrdao does not support writing to ATAPI devices without SCSI emulation and there is at least one writer in your system not configured to use SCSI emulation. Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all writer devices. This way you won't have any problems. Or you install (or select as the default) a more recent version of cdrdao.

No support for ATAPI with cdrdao
You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao.
Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all devices. This way you won't have any problems.
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I'm running Slackware 9.1 and a home compiled kernel with SCSI emulation and generic SCSI devise support.

Please advice how-to proceed.

Best regards
/tungsten

try modprobe ide-scsi then check dmesg to see if it recognized your writer

there's a bunch of threads on this site with the same problem.

generally, you need several modules or kernel options.
ide-scsi, sg, and support for scsi cdrom.

you need to have the ide driver ignore thecdrom drive in the boot loader
with hdX=ide-scsi in the append line.

cdrecord -scanbus will listif your drive is showing up. (my space bar is going out)

anyway, there's loads of other threads with tons of different style explanations here.

Thanks for your help blanny and whansard

I will check up related threads.

But why have no one write a HOWTO in this matter?

Yours
/tungsten

there are several cdwriting howto's

CD-Writing-HOWTO.html