It took me a long time to figure out how to burn CDs with Red Hat so I was
pleasantly surprised to find that Linux-Mandrake detected my CD-burner and
configured it as part of the install.
Here's an article that made everything crystal clear for me.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/stoddard.html
Cheers.
M.
On Monday 08 January 2001 14:17, you wrote:
> a while back i was asking about how i could set up my IDE CD reader to work
> with X CD Roast -- how to enable scsi emulation.
>
> Paul told me that it was done (i use GRUB) by appending hdc=ide-scsi
> such as this line:
> kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi
>
> so i tried this out, but all that happened is that my CD drive became
> unusable by everything. i couldn't even mount it or get in to it (such as
> "cd /mnt/cdrom")
>
> i used the command "cat /proc/ide" to confirm that this is hdc.
> what am i missing here?
> also, Paul said this information was on mandrakeuser.org, yet for the life
> of me i can't find it there. anyone know the actual page where it's at?
>
> thanks yet again
>
>
>
> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
> Telecom Dept.
> x 7042
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
