On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 10:46 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 10:01 am, manolis wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem with k3b in mandrake 9.1. > > the last week I cannot use the cd-copy onthefly from my IDE > > dvd-rom to my IDE phillips > > writer. > > The only device that the system sees as a SCSI is the cdwriter, I > > cannot use the dvd-rom for CD reading. I pretty sure that even > > when I was able to cd-copy on the fly, the same thing was > > happening : Only the cdwriter was founded as scsi. > > > > The funny is that in the FAQ questions of k3b.org says that you > > cannot use IDE devices, but I am pretty sure that 2-3 weeks ago I > > could copy-cds fine!! Any ideas what I meshed with? > > Edit your /etc/lilo.conf and in your append line set both your > devices to be ide-scsi > For example > hdx=ide-scsi where x is a,b,c or d a=pri master, b=pri slave, > c=sec master d=sec slave > > Then run in a root terminal > lilo -v > > Afterwards you will need to go through the k3b setup again > (and check you have the cdrdao RPM installed. It is needed for on > the fly copying) > > derek
It used to be k3b's advantage that it could read from non-scsi-em drives. Is that no longer so? Perhaps that's why this version doesn't work for me, where the last one did. As a matter of interest, XCDRoast now does read from them. Anne
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