Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

nlilly Sun, 04 Feb 2001 09:27:00 -0800

Vic wrote:

I wish to have my cdrom recognised by xcdroast,
the stupid app is looking for a scsi drive and not a /dev/hdb
drive.
What can I do ?

In order to use a cdrom burner you have to use scsi emulation for that device. Here's how to do it:
Determine what device your burner actually is. listing the /dev directory should tell you. I have two drives with my burner as the second drive...

brw------- 1 nlilly cdrom 22, 64 Sep 27 06:31 /dev/hdd

Enter into your lilo.conf at the end of the vmlinuz entry append="hdd=ide-scsi"
Reboot.
After rebooting, issue the following command as root. modprobe ide-scsi

The entry in lilo preps the system to look for your burner and treat it as a scsi device. The second installs the emulation module into the kernel. This will also report the identity of the ide drive as it progresses.

From this point on the burner will be linked to /dev/scd0 as opposed to hdd and your fstab will look something akin to the following:[

nlilly@a13c058 nlilly]$ less /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=iso9660 0 0
/dev/scd0       /mnt/cdrom2     iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=iso9660 0 0
/mnt/floppy     /mnt/floppy     supermount       user,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=vfat 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

>From this point on the available burning utilities (X-cdroast, e-roaster, cdrecord, etc.) Will see the drive and be able to use it.

How can I make xcdroast comply?

Good luck!

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North Lilly
Lan Administrator
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
330-672-2782


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Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

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