I have done a search on this topic and have read through threads, but have not found the answer to my problem. My CD writer is currently known as hdd. Currently the system is only recognizing my USB Card reader as a scsi drive(sda). This is the only scsi device the system seems to see.

Here is what I have done...

1.) Modified the lilo.confg file, by adding append="hdd=ide-scsi" to the end of the file.

2.) Ran lilo and recevied the following feedback
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: /dev/hdb2 is not on the first disk
Added Linux *

3.) Added the following lines to /etc/modules.conf
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
alias scd0 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd

4.) Added the following line in /etc/fstab
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw auto noauto,defaults 0 0

5.) Saved everything and rebooted.



The results....

1.) I first checked to see if the scsi module was loaded in the kernel with lsmod and ide-scsi was in the list. When I installed Slack I used the bare.i kernel.

2.) I did a dmesg|grep scsi and I received the following...
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi-hostadapter, erno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi-hostadapter, erno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi-hostadapter, erno=2
scsi0: scsi emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id0, lun0

3.) I ran cdrecord -scanbus and all it shows is the card reader

It seems the system is ignoring the scsi CDRW why? Any suggestions? Thanks

Shouldn't you use the same drive for these entries?

You also need to create a mount point(makedir /mnt/scd0) for your new cdrom and link it too /dev/hdd

That was a typo in my post; I have fixed it. I have everything as hdd.

I guess I am confused with this part. I have a dir I created called cdrw in the /mnt directory using mkdir. SO I figured that I would mount the SCSI CDRW here by doing someting like mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw. Is my thinking right on that?

But anyhow, the system should see hdd as a scsi device to start off right?

Do ln -s /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw
Also, you need to be root to make cd's(according to your setup).
If you want to do it as a normal user, you will have to change /etc/fstab
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw auto noauto,users 0 0
and chmod 666 /dev/scd0

Currently I am doing this as root. SO you are telling me to create a symbolic link, ok, I will try that. But does that have any bearing on Slack recognizing the device as a scsi device?

What program are you using to make cd's?
Modifying your /etc/lilo.conf should have done that.

Well I want to use cdrecord and mkiso(sp?), but I am not even there yet. I don't understand why The Scsi emulation is not working for the CDRW. IT is a LITEON CDRW and the system is seeing it as hdd. I can mount a CD from it to /mnt/cdrw with no problems and get files from it. ANybody have any ideas? DO you think the lines in my /etc/modules.conf should be in my lilo.conf file? I don't know

When I added a cd-rw to my computer, the only thing's I did were adding:
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
added a new line to /etc/fstab
created a new mount point in /mnt
then linked the mount point to /dev/hdc

Have you tried burning a cd yet?
cdrecord -v speed=? dev=0,0 filetoburn

No I haven't tried to burn a CD yet. The cdrecord program doesn't even see the CDRW. I did the command cdrecord -scanbus, which looks for all the scsi devices and all it displays is the Card reader.

Well, I got it to work I didn't know that cdrecord came with Slack 9.0 so I went and downloaded a version from the web and installed it, this might have screwed things up, but I am not sure. I had to reinstall Slack 9.0 for another reason adn I passed the option to the kernel there and now things are fine. Thanks for your help!

Glad to hear you got it working, sorry I wasn't more helpful.