well, gave xcdroast a whirl (from an install from the oxygen-2.iso 12.24.99 iso) and i finally got the little orange light to work on my cd-rw device (hp 7200i) using scsi emulation! Well, Gooollliiee!! I didn't even have to re-build the kernel either! simply state hdc=ide-scsi at startup, insmod ide-scsi insmod sg, xcdroast and wammo away i go! I've made my first coaster using LINUX! ...back to the drawing board. (can't put in lilo.conf or else i get a segmentation core dump....strange - first time for the lilo.conf file to do this to me over this statement) -- Sent from: Lattitude (deg): 32.7130 Longitude (deg): -117.1530 Altitude (ft): 410.0 GMT to Local (hrs): -8.0 (daylight savings enabled) ------------ Created with Linux-Mandrake 6.1! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ Currently Beta Testing Mandrake Ver 7.0 (CODE NAMED: OXYGEN)
