On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:50:55PM +1100, Trevor Farrell wrote:
| At risk of prolonging this agony further, I too have been unable to get a
| cd burn with my new Ver 7.0-2 install. I have an LG CED 8042B 4x4x24 IDE
| cd rw, which the install correctly identified. The install also faked some
| sort of IDE-SCSI translation so the system "thinks" this is a SCSI drive.
| The install was partly broken, but using a fix I found on this list (thank
| you), I linked the cd-rw to /dev/scd0 and all worked well as far as reading
| cds.
|
| I haven't had time to really look into this yet, but my first attempts with
| xcdroast have resulted in an error something to the effect of the reported
| page file size being wrong. xcdroast identifies the cd-rw as a scsi
| device. Is this necessary, or can the cd burning software write directly
| to an IDE device? Should I remove the IDE-SCSI translation & let the system
| address the cd-rw directly??
No. I don't know the answer to your problem (I never use xcdroast),
but removing the SCSI emulation won't help. To my knowledge, the only
way you can currently burn CDs under linux is to a SCSI device. I.e.,
either using a real SCSI drive, or using SCSI emulation by loading the
ide-scsi kernel module.
-- Alex
