Re: cdrom help

2002-01-15 Thread Jim Conner
Well, I gotta open the case and check. It worked about 2 years ago when this box had Windows on it. Yes, I've been in the box since then and might have bumped the wire loose or something. As far as the settings in KMix, I have all the volumes maxed(I'll probably be either deafened or scared

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 04:15, Tim Wunder wrote: Upon investigation, I made a WAG that the reason I needed to load ide-scsi during boot was that I had IDE CDROM support compiled into the kernel. Bugger, bugger, bugger. I *forgot* all about that wrinkle. You are right sir. -- http://linux.nf --

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:30, Ken Moffat wrote: ln -s /dev/srX /dev/scdX PMFJI .. I have /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 for cd-rw and dvd. Should I do step 3 above? Yes. It does no harm. Jan 13 07:23:05 localhost kernel: sr1: CDROM not ready. Make sure there a symlink will fix that. I assume

devfs was Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:57, David A. Bandel wrote: If you have something better (than devfs), I know lots of folks who would like to hear your idea of how to do it. We have no argument about the 'goodness' of devfs. devfs is going to happen, because it has to. I have run devfs (past

Re: devfs was Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:39:31 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:57, David A. Bandel wrote: If you have something better (than devfs), I know lots of folks who would like to hear your idea of how to do it. We have no argument about

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Jim Conner
Found another wrinkle on my system. This may affect some and not others depending on hardware and such. If you have DMA turned on when you compiled the kernel, it will enable DMA for the cdrom and cdrw. This will cause a kernel oops when you mount the cd and the only way out is the reset

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Moffat
This has correccted the problem. Thanks. (again) On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:12:26 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:30, Ken Moffat wrote: ln -s /dev/srX /dev/scdX PMFJI .. I have /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 for cd-rw and dvd. Should I do step 3 above?

RE: cdrom help

2002-01-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Folks, This topic has raised a lot of questions, and even touched on an area where I may be able to contribute (for a change). The question was raised about whether to copy the CD image to hard drive before burning to CDRW. That will work more reliably in some cases, and won't hurt. The

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-13 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:56, Rick Sivernell wrote: I am having continual problems with cdroms. I have the following scsi id 4 42x scsi cdrom scsi id 5 Yamaha 6x4x16 cdwriter hdc is a 52x ide cdrom drive [snippetty hack] Rick, your problem is your misunderstanding of srX and scdX

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-13 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:19:15 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:36, David A. Bandel wrote: modern distros deprecate the use of srX, get rid of them, literally. Promise from me that you can do no harm by deleting them. What's your

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 08:27:28 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading that bedtime reading page, it's a wonder anything works... I'm always amazed anything works (when I'm at the controls). -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-13 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Tim Wunder chose to write: Yeah, I know, replying to my own post, yada, yada snip My COL3.1 apparently uses both srx and scdx to refer to the same things: brwxrwxrwx 2 root disk 11, 0 Apr 27 2001 /dev/scd0 brw--- 1 dad root 11, 1 Apr 27 2001

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-13 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:06,David A. Bandel scribed: On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:33:19 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: [snip] modern distros deprecate the use of srX, get rid of them, literally. Promise from me that you can do no harm by deleting them. What's

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-13 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:45,Tim Wunder scribed: Now thats interesting and i'll have a look at mine. Well, I removed the /dev/sr0 and sr1 files and took hdd=ide-scsi out of grub's menu.lst file and, upon first reboot, my ide CD-ROM was no longer seen by xcdroast as a scsi device. In order for

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 12 January 2002 14:45 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote: I am not getting  a stable cdrom operation all the time. On all CD drives? or just the IDE one? -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire,

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Rick Sivernell chose to write: On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:12:15 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok now have read the BedTime reader. What I get is 1 If cdrom is not IDE-RW then hdx=ide-scsi is not needed, especially if you have real scsi cdroms writers. As long as

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:02:53 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recommendation: Remove all symlinks in /dev Remove the kernel line hdc=ide-scsi Re-boot the system and look at your /dev directory. As I understand it, you should then have /dev/sr0: SCSI CD-ROM or CDRW /dev/sr1:

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:15:18 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:02:53 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recommendation: Remove all symlinks in /dev Remove the kernel line hdc=ide-scsi Re-boot the system and look at your /dev directory. As I

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Ken Moffat chose to write: On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:02:53 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recommendation: Remove all symlinks in /dev Remove the kernel line hdc=ide-scsi Re-boot the system and look at your /dev directory. As I understand it, you should then have

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:37:36 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I've seen somewhere that sr0 and sr1 are outdated. (?)) And I snip I stand corrected. (jeez, and I JUST read the damn bedtime reading page, too!) Tim I didn't mean to correct, just offer an alternative. I've

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Rick Sivernell
List Thanks for response. Need to add some info here. Running ew 3.1.1 using kde 2.2 /var/log/messages: Jan 11 06:31:40 RSivernell kernel: Adaptec aic7850 SCSI adapter Jan 11 06:31:40 RSivernell kernel: aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs Jan 11 06:31:40

Re: cdrom help

2002-01-12 Thread Ralph Sanford
Somewhat inexperienced at this SCSI setup, but looking at my system the real SCSI CD's are sr0 and sr1. The sr? values are assigned based on the SCSI id number. In fact I recently (yesterday) had a problem adding a SCSI dvd as SCSI id 0 on a system that already had SCSI id 4 and 5 because the