my cd-rw is ide-atapi or something like, thats what i read,I can't use the ide-scsi emulation
when i installed from the 2 cd's y got this messages in dmesg
kmod failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, error = 2
but now for advice of a friend ,I compiled a new kernel the 2.6.9 vanilla flavor
y don't have any problem now, but y don' tsee my cd-rw register like a scsi
y start to read what you say y post some info of my /var/log/messages
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Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: EISA bus registered
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:01.1[C] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:01.2[D] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:01.3[D] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:01.4[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Machine check exception polling timer started.
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996
okir@monad.swb.de).
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1 C2, 8 throttling states)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)]
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:00.1
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: SIS5513: chipset revision 208
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: SIS5513: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: SIS5513: SiS730 ATA 100 (1st gen) controller
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda
MA, hdb
MA
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc
MA, hdd
MA
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: hda: max request size: 1024KiB
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Jan 16 01:10:24 Soul kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
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I don't now what i'm doing wrong even my usb-cdrw can't work, but y can see usb memory flash when is plugged