Hola; After reading your details, I noticed you are from Murcia! While I have never been to Spain, my son and I have hosted 3 exchange students from Spain, and the last was from Murcia. Alejandro Romero Tejero. I have not heard from him in a while but I know I will again one day. I would like to visit Spain a lot. I'm real glad to have known all 3 boys. Anyway, your message is timely as I just installed Linux-Mandrake for the first time and my CD-ROM and CD-RW are not working although I can see them both in the device manager. What confused me until your message was that there were 2 incidents of the CD-RW, the second, a SCSI. I have no SCSI devices or interface on my machine. What you said sorta cleared up that mystery and also gave me an avenue of approach to make my drives operational. Gracias, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello again > This is not a message with a problem, but with a solution. > Under mandrake 7.1 in my old Pentium II xcdroast detected both, the > cdrom and the cdwriter. Under MDK 7.2 just the cdwriter emulating scsi > is recognized, so the cdwriter must work hard, reading the origen cd and > writing the new cd. > Actually this is the situation using MDK installation, but I have read > that this could be solved, I will show the steps I have followed in my > case. I have a Sony CR-X160E cdwriter and a Hitachi DVD. The scsi > emulation has been installed by Mandrake 7.2 just for the cdwriter, but > it is also possible to do that for the DVD. > > Firs of all in my case the cdwriter is the hdc (ide 1, master) and the > DVD is the hdd (ide 1, slave). > 1) In all the lines of /boot/grub/menu.lst for start linux I had to add > "hdd=ide-scsi" > 2)From a konsole I typed "mknod scd1 b 11 8" > 3) From konsole, I typed "ln -s scd1 cdrom2" > 4) Due to a kudzu bug, I could not acces to cdrom2 for normal use; I > needed to type also:" > "cd /dev &&rm cdrom2 && ln -s scd1 cdrom2" > to solve the wrong link created by kudzu. > 5) Restart linux > > It was easy to comprobate if everything were running; I try to read > pc-cdroms from both cdrom units; no problems. I load the udf module and > my DVD Hitachi could read a DVD disk. And to know if the scsi emulation > was also running I use the next commands: > cdrecord --scanbus (both cdrom and cdwriter were shown) > cat /proc/scsi/scsi (similar results) > run xcdroast and go to setup; both drivers appears. > > Now I can read the cds using my Hitachi DVD and burn they using the Sony > CDwriter. ¡great! > > Se you soon > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) -- Dave Burrows 741 Cleveland Road Washington, PA 15301 USA
