I am isolating the problem; is not with the Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-5002, because
 I have seen that it could run under linux (search made in google), but with
 having two cd-rw/dvd-rw attached at the same ide (in the case of my friend,
 on ide1).  The problem is occuring with the last kernels (google search
 again)

In a Suse  related page: (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/max_scsi_luns.html)
it is well described:

"Symptom: Your IDE CD-recorder for which a SCSI emulation is running is
detected 8 times and occupies /dev/scd0 to /dev/scd7. A typical symptom is
the command cdrecord -scanbus displaying the same CD-recorder eight times.
Solution: Insert max_scsi_luns=1 as a kernel parameter for your boot loader
configuration.
If you use LILO as your boot loader, insert this parameter in the append line
of LILO's configuration file /etc/lilo.conf.
If you use GRUB as your boot loader, insert the parameter in the kernel line
of GRUB's menu list /boot/grub/menu.lst.
After the changes, LILO must be restarted. For GRUB, changes apply
immediately. "

I think this afternoon I will be able to test the solution (my friend isn't
 at home now).

I will inform you of the results; but if this can occur with 9.2 it will be a
good idea to put some comment about this subject at the Mandrake web page,
wouldn't be?

Regards
Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)


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