Anne,
The problem referred to is now resolved and think it may be worthwhile
examining the following three files making allowances for your hd & scd
numbers. It will enable you to burn 'on the fly', which can have
advantages in your working 'although not audio).
/etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
vga=normal
default=Mandrake
prompt
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
label=Mandrake
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
append=" quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
/etc/fstab
/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0
0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/etc/mtab
/dev/hdb5 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 rw 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0
0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0
0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0
0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
Seasons greetings.
Malcolm Candlish.
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 19:39, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On the other hand, you could take my solution - I use the cd-rw as both reader
> and writer. I have to burn an image if I want a copy, but for most purposes
> it causes me no problems whatsoever.
>
> Anne
>
> On Sunday 15 Dec 2002 7:32 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > Thank you for your comments.
> >
> > I can work the reader for XCDRoast if the cd reader is in scsi emulation
> > form, but the trouble is it will not operate as a normal cd reader for
> > other purposes.
> >
> > In view of this I shall take your advice and drop emulation for the
> > reader and resort to the 'command line' for that occasion.
> >
> > Thank you for your input.
> >
> > Malcolm Candlish.
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:29, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > > On Thursday December 12 2002 12:57 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote:
> > > > Charles,
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your reply.I had no idea that both the hdc reader and
> > > > hdd writer rom were to be in scsi emulation mode. This I fear may
> > > > disrupt my reader rom in other duties?
> > >
> > > It will
> > >
> > > > At the end of my reply I am adding my significant files should you
> > > > wish to look at them. I am grateful for your time.
> > > >
> > > > What is kb3? I have not heard of this; is it any good and how can I
> > > > obtain it.
> > >
> > > Kb3 gets around this by completely modifying your mount points in
> > > /etc/fstab ... which also will cause 'disrupt my reader rom in other
> > > duties' problems, often even worse. As does settin your CDrom up to
> > > be scsi emulated.
> > >
> > > GUI front ends for the programs of cdrecord and mkisofs try to
> > > work on several differnet distro's. IMO, not very well on any. Even
> > > if you get a GUI setup to work with your drives, changing from
> > > supermount to supermount disabled will ruin the day again. Similar
> > > situations will be encountered when trying to use the various GUI
> > > burner apps to select files to be burned.
> > >
> > > You'll be better off in the long run reading the CD-writing-howto,
> > > and learning how to use your burner on the command line. You'll also
> > > find out that it's simpler, quicker an easier than GUI's anyhow. EG,
> > > to record an audio CD, all I hav'ta do is type 'bacd' in a terminal
> > > as user. Much quicker, simpler, and bulletproof than any GUI.
> > >
> > > alias bacd='cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,3,0 -pad -audio *.wav'
> > > --
> > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
> > >
> > > ----
> > >
> > >
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>
>
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