Here's the text from a Civileme post last month:
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SCSI Emulation is in two parts--first a message to the kernel to
tell it to assume emulation is done Second is a modprobe of
scsi and a link to the appropriate SCSI device
The first part is simple in /etc/lilo.conf or in drakboot
(Control Center Boot Config) make sure you have this in the
append
hdc=ide-scsi
if for example it is hdc.
Now in /dev you need to do the following
cd /dev && rm cdrom2 && ln -s scd0 cdrom2
if, for example, the /etc/fstab entry uses /dev/cdrom2 for your
CDRW.
Finally somewhere you need a
modprobe ide-scsi
It can be dropped int the next to last line of /etc/rc.local
(an extra one won't hurt if your system is already doing one)
It is a little known fact that ordinaty plain vanilla CDROMs can
also be scsi-emulated in the same manner. Our tests over the
past 5 months show this works just as well as the dual structure
we now support.
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:03, John Rigby wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:44, you manipulated electrons to produce:
> > > 3. Cannot figure out how to operate CDRW Writer! ( M8 knows it's
> > > there, but I'm only allowed one CD - I have 2, both identified)
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Linux treats CD-writers as SCSI devices. Since most modern CD-RW's
> > are IDE, there's some work to be done. (MDK 8 did it all by itself
> > for me though.)
>
> Hi Paul,
> Thanks 4 the help!
>
> As I said though, M8 knows they are there, I can even access either
> one - PROVIDED I delete the other off the desktop first. ????????
> It simply will not allow two cdroms on the desktop at once.
> ( Remember I am gui-oriented)
>
> The other point was that there are two supplied CD burner progs:
> Gcombust and Gtoaster from initial install. Both are less than
> intuitive!! I came from good ol' EasyCD point and click!
> No average user would have a hope with either of them.
> I'm looking for a more friendly one.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
