I have an internal IDE burner. The CD writing howto tells me that
insmod has to load ide-scsi to make it compatible with cdrecord. Some stuff in /etc/modules.conf but you can't edit this yoursefl
1. How do I get the loading of ide-scsi.o done automatically when I boot up,
2. there are some lines that have to be put in to make sure that ide-scsi gets to the drive before Linux tries to make it into an IDE drive.
see http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html
Again, where to put these lines in, assuming ide-scsi.o is loaded with an insmod command.
If you boot with lilo, add it to the lilo config. If you use grub or something else, I haven't dealt with those specifically but the process is similar.
Edit /etc/lilo.cfg and add the following, if your cdwriter is on hdc
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
If you already have an append line there containing, something else, edit it as follows
append="somethingelse=whatever hdc=ide-scsi"
When you're finished editing lilo.cfg you have to run lilo to set those changes into your bootup process, and you're done.
You can now gain access to the cdwriter through the scsi devices instead.
Use cdrecord -scanbus to confirm its existence.
-- Paul Wilkins
