Is the zip drive 0,0 or 0,1?

Have you tried

cdrecord -scanbus

?


On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Trevor Farrell said:
| >  Been there, done that.
| >  
| >   | >  > You have, I'm guessing that both cd's are on the same
cable, set the dip | >  > switches to the correct master or slave
settings?? | >  >
| >  
| >  That too! Both devices work perfectly under win95 and BeOS 5, only Linux has
| >  problems.
| 
| Just to let you know that I, too, have followed the "standard" directions and
| have been unable to get my cd-writer working right. I have two hard drives on
| my first IDE port. On the second I have the cd-writer as master and a zip drive
| as slave. The last experiment I tried had the zip drive showing up in xcdroast
| and not the cd-writer. And there were weirdnesses about ordinary read access to
| the drives as well. It looks like it's possible for the slave to overwrite the
| assignment that the master was given, so that only the slave shows up. I
| =think= my solution may be to switch the cd-writer and zip connectors.
| Unfortunately, it's not that easy to get into my system, and also I'm sick and
| tired of all the experiments I tried with this already. Since almost all of my
| cd writing needs are still in Win 98, I've put this project on the back burner
| for now.
| -- 
| Lane
| ____
| Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
| Using Linux to get where I want to go...
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