On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:49, Lee Begg wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you are using a 2.6.x kernel, than you don't need ide-scsi
true > (in fact i > hear it's broken). > not on this box (where i can't be bothered to channge the settings from the old 2.4 kernel settings. > A modern cdrecord should be able to use straight ide cd writers. > > Try this to see if you can: > cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus > > If you see a line like: > 0,1,0 1) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4802TE ' '2.0D' Removable CD-ROM > (look for CR, -R, RW or something like that in the "CR-4802TE" field) > Then you can use cdrecord without the ide-scsi kernel module. > > Others should answer the below because I don't remember how I solved the > problems i used to have with ide-scsi. Some I can and have answered. > > On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:00, Patrick Dunford wrote: > > 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 > > It is a very important file. It is owned and only writable by the root > user. You will need to su or sudo to the root user to edit it. > > > 1. How do I get the loading of ide-scsi.o done automatically when I boot > > up, > > Either put it in modules.conf, or put it in lilo. > > > 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 > > The doc at that link dates back from 2000. There have been a few changes > lately. Most distributions set everything up for the users for cd burning > (exceptions: debian, gentoo, and maybe some others). > > > Again, where to put these lines in, assuming ide-scsi.o is loaded with > > an insmod command. > > Hope this helps > > Later > Lee Begg > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFARcY+pAHGV7d5I9kRAoYAAJsHx48Pcs9uGRvXB3SWyrvbOybW6wCghpdi > IwnepV+7OlmZtvpHuMMjAxs= > =lflv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
