Well,
I can't speak for the ricoh drive but the phillips cdd3610 atapi 226
cdromrw works fine for m6.0 and for 6.1. It really is not necessary to
recompile the kernel. Read the instructions at the cdrecord url about
atapi drives. Basically:
add to lilo:-
APPEND="hdd=ide-scsi" <-- or whatever the device letter.
then:-
insmod sg
insmod ide-scsi <-- maybe in rc.local
and:-
cdrecord -scanbus <-- to give the dev string.
Voila, all works like magic.
Bruce
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> I have an ATAPI Ricoh CDRW. In order to get it to work under M6.0
> (unless you know something I don't) for the purposes of burning CDR's
> and CDRW's, I had to recompile the Kernel, turn off support for ATAPI
> CDROMs and turn on support for ide-scsi SCSI emulation for ATAPI CDROM
> drives.
>
> Is there any reason why we can't ship a kernel configuration with this
> as default? Are there any problems associated with making all ATAPI
> CDROMs emulate SCSI? What do you lose by using ide-scsi?
>
> Alternatively, could the default Cooker kernels come compiled in with
> modular support for ide-scsi? Supposedly there is a lilo directive for
> telling the kernel to use ide-scsi for specific CDROM drives.
>
