"Dr. Simon Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting pretty frustrated with my upgrade to potato. I bought a > CD/RW at about the same time as upgrading, but I can't seem to make it > work. > > I know I have to use the ide-scsi drivers, but I have no idea how to > configure them. I can't make them recognise the devices I have. I > have a regular CD drive and the CD/RW (an HP 8200i) connected to ide0, > so they are hdc and hdd. > > Can anyone help me configure them? Does anyone know a 'fine' manual I > can refer to? I've read all the relevant HOWTOs (I think) and they > don't help!
I think that things are slightly easier now with 2.2 kernels than with 2.0 kernels. You have checked that you have the master and slave settings correct for the 2 CD drives? When I recompiled my kernel I included the following (some of which may not strictly be necessary...) SCSI support, SCSI CD support, SCSI generic support, SCSI emulation. I de-selected IDE/ATAPI CDROM support, since I only have a CD/RW in this machine. I think you could do the same and read your normal CD drive using SCSI emulation, and this might be simpler than trying to have one of each. I did *NOT* have to add append="hdc=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf (because I use modules). In modutils I added a new file cdrw-ide-scsi: post-install scsi_mod "/sbin/insmod" "-k" "ide-scsi" pre-remove scsi_mod "/sbin/rmmod" "ide-scsi" options ide-cd ignore=hdc and re-ran update-modules. I guess you will want to add ",hdd" to the end of the last line (but I'm not certain of the syntax for a list of drives to ignore). After re-booting, my CDRW shows up as /dev/scd0, so in /dev I have a symlink: /dev/cdrom -> scd0 Your second drive will presumably show up as /dev/scd1. The CD-Writing-HOWTO goes into more detail, and points to some web sites that I found very helpful when first setting up my CDRW. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902