I'm trying to utilize my IDE CD-R drive (HP CD-Writer 8100) via scsi emulation to burn discs with cdrecord. I've been reading http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/CD-Writing.html#toc1 for the last couple of days, and have done a few things listed there, but now I'm stuck.
Here's my setup: x86 adaptec 2940 scsi cd-rom scsi hard disk ide cd-burner (HP CD-Writer 8100) debian potato linux custom 2.2.10 kernel I've built a custom kernel with this (abridged) configuration: BLOCK Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL... M BLOCK IDE/ATAPI CDROM ide-cd M BLOCK SCSI hostadaptor emulation ide-scsi M BLOCK Loopback device loop M SCSI SCSI support scsi_mod Y SCSI SCSI CD-ROM support sr_mod M SCSI Enable vendor-specific Y SCSI SCSI generic support sg M SCSI (select a low-level driver) aic7xxx Y FS ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem iso9660 Y FS Microsoft Joliet cdrom... joliet Y I've also added 'append="hda=ide-scsi"' to my /etc/lilo.conf, and also 'alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi' to /etc/modutils/aliases and 'options ide-cd ignore=hda' to /etc/modutils/modconf, and run update-modules of course. I've tried variations, for instance with IDE=Y, etc. What device should I use to access the device now that I'm theoretically using scsi emulation? Running 'cdrecord -scanbus' gets me: Cdrecord release 1.8a25 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsibus0: 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST34371N ' '0338' Disk 1) 'MATSHITA' 'CD-ROM CR-506 ' '8S05' Removable CD-ROM 2) * 3) * 4) * 5) * 6) * 7) * I have no idea what do next! I have no /dev/sr* devices, and can't seem to make them with /dev/MAKEDEV. What device should I use to access the HP? How can I load up a module so as to make it show up in the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus'? morgan