On Tuesday 24 September 2002 01:01 pm, Robert Robinson wrote: > Mandrake Linux 9 with ASUS P4B533 motherboard and TDK 40/12/48 or > Creative 12/10/32x IDE CD-ROM. > CD-ROM starts with auto-boot, displays > Mandrake install display and multiple initial steps including correctly > finding IDE hard drives. Message then states that no CD-ROM found and asks > for SCSI CD-ROM driver. CD-ROM is IDE connected. > Any help would be appreciated. > Thank you. > Robert Robinson > > > (Suggestions/comments from David & Nico in another forum: > 1) Make sure the cdrw is marked as a cd-rom in the bios/cmos. Not Auto. > 2) CDRW drives are recognized as scsi under linux, so the ide-scsi module > must be loaded. If the 1st trick doesn't work try this: > a) Instead of hitting enter to continue,press F1 to get to the > "prompt". > b) type: linux hdb=ide-scsi > (change hdb to match you system's configuration) > c) Now hit Enter. > > Only kind of. The difficulty is that the "cdrecord" program at the root of > most Linux CD recording software was written specifically for SCSI, and has > never been *taught* how to handle IDE. Other programs, such as music or > video playing or auto-mounting software handle an IDE CD-RW just fine for > such uses. > > Also, ignore the kernel boot wackiness: that was one of the stupidest bits > of bad advice ever written by a freeware author. Use an init script at boot > time to say "gee, do I have any IDE CD drives? I should load up the > ide-scsi driver!". This is because once the driver is loaded for the first > IDE SCSI drive, it's available for *ALL* of them. And adding the loading to > the LILO or grub setup just makes things more fragile there: this is > perfectly effective as an after-boot-time function, especially if you > compile kernels without loadable modules.)
Also make sure your CD Drive is pin selected as Master or Slave and not Cselect.
