On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:46 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > Maybe changing my hair colour to purple's made me the equivalent of a > blonde but... > > I've been messing with Kwikdisk for the better part of 2 hours now. In > short, I can't seem to u/mount any of my CDRom drives. It insists that > (for example) my burner is /dev/scd0. This is not the case though. My > other cdrom is listed as a HDD device!? > > I know the answer is staring me in the face here... so what to do? I > tried to disable supermount too.. made no difference. > > Erm... Help? > > Femme Kwikdisk is just a docking program for kdiskfree which is a mighty utility. Your CDROM is indeed an ide device which will be listed as such and your burner is a scsi device to the system cause the kernel has been told to treat it that way (Scsi emulation)
Actually any CD drive is emulated by software -- there is a module compiled in by default called ide-cd. Experiments where ide-scsi is the default worked well except for a few DVD drives which insisted on being emulated by ide-cd, so ide-cd is the default and ide-scsi is loaded for burners because cdrecord works only on scsi devices, and cdrecord is the backend for all the GUI burners. Anyway, CD drives are treated as identical to hard drives by kdf, but they are always full when a CD is loaded. The way 9.0 supermount is set up from a fresh install, they don't even list on kdf, but upgrades may vary. Civileme
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