Lane Lester wrote:
>
> Ron Stodden said:
> > I take it your cdrw is an ATAPI device?
> > I take it your ZIP is an ATAPI device?
>
> Yes and yes, hdc and hdd, respectively.
>
> > Much better is to add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf for the
> > linux image:
> >
> > append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
>
> Now done.
>
> > No. place a "/sbin/modprobe sg" line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
>
> This is now there:
> /sbin/modprobe sg
> /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
You don't need this last, since LILO got the kernel to set it up -
see your dmesg to confirm that.
> > Now read and write a mounted zip disk and read a mounted CDROM to
> > check.
>
> The CD reads OK, but an attempt to mount the Zip gives:
> [root@localhost /root]# mount /mnt/zip
> mount: /dev/zip is not a block device
> [root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/sg4
> mount: can't find /dev/sge in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
> The reason for the "sge" is that sg4 is a symbolic link to sge. That
> made me think the link should be from zip to sgd (since its IDE device
> is hdd),
Good thinking!
> but changing that didn't help.
There is plenty of stuff in the archive of this newsgroup about
setting up ZIP drives. Sorry I can't help.
> > Then umount the cdrw and run cdrecord -scanbus to verify write
> > access to the cdrw.
>
> scsibus1:
> 1,0,0 100) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '13.A' Removable
> Disk
> 1,1,0 101) 'Memorex ' 'CDRW-2216 ' '1.0b' Removable
> CD-ROM
>
> > I'm not sure about the ZIP, since I don't have one.
>
> I sure wish you did, because I really need to solve that. But I
> appreciate very much your help; it looks like I have CDRW capability
> now. Time to do a test CD write!
Alas, not so quick! The mkisofs distributed with 7.0-2 and on all
the mirrors is corrupt and will quietly output corrupt ISO images
which cdrecord will quietly write --> coaster (g). Remove its RPM
and replace it with the mkisofs-1.1.12 tar file (unfortunately not an
RPM, but you may be able to find one somewhere?) downloaded from:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
> --
> Lane
> ____
> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
> Using Linux to get where I want to go...
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
