Dave, I am very glad for the good impression you have of Murcia or as
least of the murcian people. I work as a professor in the Biology
Faculty at the University of Murcia (I don't know if the murcian student
you mention came from the University or from a secondary school; do you
imagine? it could be incredible if hi was a Biology studend!!.
Well, tolking about your problem, if you can see both cd-drivers,
perhaps could be a little problem with fstab or a kudzu bug; In the page
of Mandrake (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en) there is a tutorial link
when they have put a very interesting tutor about cdrw installation.
Have a look, perhaps your problem is solved there.
On the other hand, I neither have a scsi device; both cd-driver of mine
are ide-atapi devices but under linux to have a ide-atapi cdwriter
working it is necessary to do a scsi emulation. By the way, there is a
mistake in the message I put yesterday in the list; the step 2) should
say: mknod scd 1 b 11 0 (remember, the old message put mknod scd 1 b 11
8).
I hope this help!
By the way, If you finally come to Spain and specially to Murcia,
please, call me or send me an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] At least I could recommend you some interesting places
to visit (I have travelled several times all around Spain; I am a
botanist, this is my research work and I need frequently to travel to
make vegetation maps or study plants and vegetation), where to find good
restaurant and typical wonderfull food, and so on.
Regards
Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
----- Mensaje Original -----
Remitente: Dave Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Martes, Enero 23, 2001 3:08 am
Asunto: Re: [newbie] sing both cdrw and cdrom from X
> Hola;
>
> After reading your details, I noticed you are from Murcia! While I
> havenever 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
> SCSIdevices 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
>
>
>
----- Mensaje Original -----
Remitente: Dave Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Martes, Enero 23, 2001 3:08 am
Asunto: Re: [newbie] sing both cdrw and cdrom from X
> Hola;
>
> After reading your details, I noticed you are from Murcia! While I
> havenever 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
> SCSIdevices 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
>
>
>
