External CD-RW question
I have an external HP CD-RW attached to a parallel port. It works under M$ but I'm wanting to move to a linux only environment. So, how do I set this up under linux? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Trevor Stuart ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: External CD-RW question
Hi, Trevor: Point your browser to: http://www.linux.nf/stepbystep.htm and in the index on the left side of the page you will find a listing for CD Burners. I also suggest you bookmark this site. It's an excellent resource. I don't know about drives connected to the parallel port. That may be a separate issue. But again, I suggest you begin looking at the SxS site. Since you don't say which distro you are running, I don't know where the doc files are on your machine, but you might also look in your /usr directory and subdirectories for anything related to CD-R / CD-RW drives. HTH Regards, Glenn On Wednesday 08 August 2001 03:53 am, Trevor Stuart observed: I have an external HP CD-RW attached to a parallel port. It works under M$ but I'm wanting to move to a linux only environment. So, how do I set this up under linux? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Trevor Stuart ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 135678 Powered by SuSE 7.2 ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: External CD-RW question
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 21:23, Trevor Stuart wrote: I have an external HP CD-RW attached to a parallel port. [snip] you're in for a wild ride. this device is supported under the paride (parallel ide) driver as an HP7110 (I think) and requires at least two more modules to run which may or may not be epat.o and pf.o /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt is where you need to be. this device is not scsi, not ide, not usb, nor any other 'standard' dev but will be (finally) loaded on (something like) /dev/pg0 (parallel general scsi) It's an awful document to read, but basically it's telling you that you need paride.o # the core module some chip driver.o (probably epat) scsi-general (pg.o) or hard disk (pcd.o) bulk-storage-ls120-parallel, on the site below, gives you a good indication of the steps required to load this animal. It's not of course the same, you will have to do your homework. Linux incidentally does not distinguish between cd-r and cd-rw, the burning application of course does, but the OS does not. In order for it to be a burnable cd write, you will have to use to pg.o module to phool it into being a scsi device. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
