On Friday 25 October 2002 12:29 pm, Spencer wrote: > On October 25, 2002 11:09 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > > Sirs, > > > > I have a Mitsumi CR-4804TE with which I had hoped to Burn Linux CD's. > > > > It's an ide-scsi type. Set it up via the HOWTO and not only does it not > > work, my scsi scanner no longer operates either. > > > > Mandrake Control Center seems of little value unless it finds dev via > > its own scan. > > > > Anyone else had this problem? > > > > Malcolm Candlish. > > As root, what does ' cdrecord --scanbus' say?
I have the same drive and it's worked no trouble since Mandrake 7.2. Auto detected, set up at first boot, using the k3b front end I can even DAO direct copy from CD (LiteOn 40X CD-ROM is the other drive) to blank media which makes life easier when copying Mandrake download disks for friends that want to try the distribution. There's a firmware update, two actually, for it at the Mitsumi website: www.mitsumi.com/enduser/1_drivers.html supposedly for Windows only to allow you to use media larger than 650 MB. I updated mine back when I still ran Windows 98 SE (Feb. 2000) and it's able to use up to 90 minute blanks, so far without trouble. Also 700 MB CD-RWs. Seems the update really did work? You said you'd already tried to set it up via the HOWTO; which how to? Also worthwhile information would be what version of Mandrake (?) are you working with? Just a guess, in /etc/lilo.conf is your kernel being passed hdx=ide-scsi in the append line? If not you may want to make it so using the relevant hd? for the drive on your system. Last thoughts for the moment; have you added your user to the cdrom and cdwriter groups, and is the drive on the motherboard IDE channel or are you using a controller card? Good luck and pass along a bit more information please. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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