On 26-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> 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
> default cdrecord (1.82?) and xcdroaster from the distro. When I run 'cdrecord
> -scanbus' I get the error " ". When I start up xcdroaster I get the message
> that the SCSI generic module (sg) isn't loaded into the kernel. When I do an
> 'insmod sg' it says it's already loaded and lsmod confirms this (it has
> [autoclean ?] in the right column). By looking at the CD-Writing Mini-HOWTO
> the
> Mandrake 2.2.9-27 kernel seems to have all required components either
> loadable
> as modules or compiled into the kernel. Am I missing something?
>
> I've tried running under my id and as root and neither work. Do I need to
> mount
> the device before it can be found?
>
> Any help much appreciated as this is the last thing I need to get working
> before
> I can wipe Windoze off my hard drive...thanks!
Is your CD-RW drive IDE/ATAPI, or SCSI? And is it on the list of supported
drives (there's a link to such a list on cdrecord's homepage)?
If it's SCSI, I don't know how to help since I haven't used SCSI drives. If
it's IDE/ATAPI, then there are just two very simple things you need to do
(hopefully :) ):
Put this line in your /etc/lilo.conf, in the part for booting Linux:
append="hdX=ide-scsi"
Where X is the correct letter for your CD-RW drive. Run lilo to write that to
the MBR.
Then when you reboot, Linux will not load IDE drivers for your CD-RW drive,
and you can type 'modprobe ide-scsi' to load ide-scsi module to run the drive
in SCSI emulation. See if it shows up in 'cdrecord -scanbus' now.
-Tom
