Dennis, you "Da Man". however, in my case, I think I need to do a "mknod cdrom3", since I already have a dvd on ide0 slave, and a cdrom on ide1 slave. got any idea what the major and minor numbers should be, or where to find that info? then I can do the link. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ed Tharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW problem
> On Tuesday 06 November 2001 21:56, you wrote: > > so what should I put to get my USB cdwriter to be ide-scsi? I know I had it > > working good, along with the other cd (ide0 slave) and the dvd (ide1 slave) > > in 8.0 I remember I had to create a link for cdrom3 to scd0, and edit > > lilo.conf append statement, but I don't remember the syntax. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 8:31 PM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW problem > > > > > On Tuesday 06 November 2001 18:31, you wrote: > > > > I might be able to do it from the command line but Gcombust can't find > > > > the > > > > > > drive. I think my problem is that the ide-scsi driver isn't installed. > > > > > > > > At 09:07 AM 11/6/2001 +0100, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > > >Actually you don't need to -mount- it to use cdrecord. The mounting as > > > > > 'read only' is quite correct as you are mounting the existing file > > > > system > > > > > > > on the cdrom rather than the drive itself. > > > > >Stick in a blank writable cd and (hopefully) just burn away :) > > > > >Excepting 'koncd' that is :( > > > > > > > > > >Good Luck, > > > > > > > > > >Harm > > > > > > Right, now that I think about it if you use lilo you should have an > > > > append > > > > > the says "hdx=ide-scsi hdy=ide-floppy quiet" and the hdx and hdy depends > > > > on > > > > > how your system sees the devices. such as hdb or hdd etc..Try appending > > > > that > > > > > to lilo or feeding it in at boot. HTH > > > > > > -- > > > Dennis M. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > >- ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ed, the syntax is (change for your config naturally): > # cd /dev && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom > HTH > -- > Dennis M.
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