On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:11 pm, many eyes noted that Larry Sword wrote:There is probably an entry like this:
Charlie wrote:
In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to get k3b to recognise their writer.
I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems or systems that I build.
Using Mandrake 9.1
On one of my systems I had a reader and writer on the one cable. The reader was at the end of the cable, and later I installed and connected a writer into the center of the cable. I then started to use k3b which recognised both accurately. However, after some months, the reader had problems. The reader didn't read and the system told me that no media was present.
The reader was jumpered as the master and the writer was jumpered as the slave.
I couldn't boot a CD-ROM, so I altered the positions of both drives on the cable. Put the writer at the end and the reader in the centre of the cable, and jumpered the writer as master and just to fill up the hole and try the reader again, still put the plug in and jumpered it as slave.
Surprise, surprise. The reader worked again and the writer booted CD's But when I tried to burn CD's, k3b would not recognise the writer. Saw it only as a reader. Just in case, uninstalled k3b and then reinstalled it, but it still registered 2 readers, no writer.
So I took a panel of the box, left the CD drives where they were, but just jumpered the writer as slave again, and the reader as master. Invoked k3b, it now recognised the writer as such and the reader correctly also. The reader still worked and the writer with k3b burned CD's without and trouble.
Thought I would pass this on in case it might help anyone that was having trouble with k3b not recognising writers>
Charlie.
One question, did you change the settings in LILO and reboot after changing the location of the drives on the IDE channel?
Larry
No I didn't do that Larry. I don't have any reference in /etc/lilo.conf to CD-Roms that I can find, and I run grub on that system. But I did change the entries in /etc/fstab without any joy.
image=/boot/vmlinuz-enterprise
label="linux-enterpris"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd-enterprise.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht"
read-only
In the "append= the hdd=ide-scsi and hdc=ide-scsi" indicate these drives are to be
setup for scsi emulation.The /etc/fstab entries should look like:
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
(With supermount enabled, different if disabled) I run with supermount enabled without problems.
Larry
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