On Tuesday 16 July 2002 12:16 pm, you wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > > Linus Drouhard wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped > >> me. I have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A). > >> Anyway, I set up both drives as SCSI devices. Mandrake install > >> automagically set up the CD-RW and I added the following as to the > >> "append line" in lilo.conf > >> > >> ....hdb=ide-scsi" > >> > >> not too hard so far. I ran lilo and the drive works. I can do > >> direct CD to CD copy...in gnometoaster. Other programs don't > >> recognize the CD-R as a reader. I cannot open either drive through > >> the /mnt. They're both locked. I can play CD's with CD player in > >> the CD-R. > >> I have the CD-R on hdb and the CD-RW on hdd. I think that something > >> is confused between scdo and scd1. I can't seem to straighten it > >> out. It's not a killer as I can undo the append statement to remove > >> the scsi emulation on the CD-R and everything is back to normal, > >> except direct CD copying. > >> > >> Any ideas? Thanks > >> > >> Linus > > > > did you change the entries in fstab as well > > > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Well, your other programs look at links > > /dev/cdrom > > which is most probably hanging--attached to nothing > > Your drives under ide-scsi are /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 > > And you need to set up /etc/fstab entries and also the /dev/cdrom link > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > > and a second entry for the other CD drive with say /mnt/cdrom1 and > /dev/scd1 > > and erase the previous entry or better comment it out for the CD drive. > the one where it says dev=/dev/hdb > > Finally in a terminal as root, the ONE drive where you want to play > audio CDs > > ln -fs /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom > > Yep select one drive for audios and make sure you have the audio cable > from that drive to the sound card, and link that one to /dev/cdrom so > the players can find it. > > Civileme
Thanks for all the suggestions, doing these, and deleting and creating new icons on my desktop for the CDs, all works well now.
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