Thanks for evryones help. In the end. I just updated my system using the
install disk and it found it and configured it!
I'm now burning away ;-)
Thnks for evryones help,
Jord
On Friday 01 June 2001 19:56, you wrote:
> Jordan, this is what worked for me. Edit /etc/modules.conf, and add the
> line
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 ide-scsi
>
> This tells Mandrake that you have a SCSI adapter, which is in fact
> implemented by the ide-scsi driver which makes IDE drives look like SCSI.
> Then do 'cdrecord -scanbus' to see what SCSI devices it can find. I get:
>
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) *
> 0,1,0 1) *
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'D.09' Removable Disk
> 0,7,0 7) *
> scsibus1:
> 1,0,0 100) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 10X8X32 ' '8.JZ' Removable CD-ROM
> 1,1,0 101) *
> 1,2,0 102) *
> 1,3,0 103) *
> 1,4,0 104) *
> 1,5,0 105) *
> 1,6,0 106) *
> 1,7,0 107) *
>
> which tells me it has found the drive. Remember the 1,0,0 stuff, that is
> what the burner program needs. The burner program I use is gcombust. On the
> Burn tab, there is a CD-Recorder device options section, which is where you
> need to the get the 1,0,0 stuff in. Mine starts with Scsibus 0, Target 6,
> Lun 0, because it thinks it is going to burn a CD on the Zip drive :-). If
> I click the detect SCSI drive button, it changes to Scsibus 1, Target 0,
> Lun 0. That means it's going to work. When you do a burn, don't forget to
> uncheck the Dummy test run option, or you will be confused like I was :-).
>
> John
>
> On Saturday 02 June 2001 04:45, Jordan Elver wrote:
> > I've just got a cd writer after all your wonderful advice last week ;-)
> > I have it installed and working. But not as a cdwriter. it works as a
> > cdrom and Mandrake found it, but what now.
> >
> > All the tutorials that I have found refer to using lilo and using
> > modprobe etc, but I'm using grub, not lilo?!
> >
> > Any help or url's would be helpful ;-)
