[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I haven't been able to get my CD-RW drive working under Linux yet and hoping for
> a few helpful hints. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 (2.2.9-27 via RPM) with the
OK, I've managed to get this working, so here are my helpful hints for you:
The documentation is probably stashed in /usr/doc/xcdroast on your hard disk
- dig around there -- you'll proably want to read it.
Here is the short version of what it says:
Recompile your kernel --
You have to compile the ide-scsii emulation, generic scsii support, and scsi
cdrom drivers into the kernel, not as modules. (If you work out how to do
this with modules, let us know ... )
You have to compile out (that is, don't include) the ide cdrom support. If
you have an ide floppy, compile that into the kernel too, or the scsii
emulator will interfere with that too.
Your cdrom is now /dev/sr1 or /dev/sr0, so don't forget to change the
/dev/cdrom hard link.
They recomend that if your hard disk is an IDE one, that you use the -u
option with hdparm (check the hdparm man page and see your
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file). I still got xcdroast/cdrecord to work without
using -u, but I have put the -u option in, and it seems better (I burned a
cd from an image on the HDD at 4x, and installed Corel WP8 at the same
time, so the IDE disk seems quite fast enough for me ...)
The current xcdroast is still quite limited, especially for audio tracks, so
you probably won't wipe Windows, but it's good for most jobs.
Good luck,
Steven
