I just installed mine last week and so here are the instructions I followed
Your first task is to determine the device name. Refer to the chart below: IDE Port Master/slave Device 1 master /dev/hda 1 slave /dev/hdb 2 master /dev/hdc 2 slave /dev/hdd 3 master /dev/hde 3 slave /dev/hdf 4 master /dev/hdg 4 slave /dev/hdh Check the mount by eject /dev/hdc (or device as noted above this should open the cd rom tray) Start by backing up your original /etc/modules.conf. Then add the following line to /etc/modules.conf: alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi Back up your original /etc/lilo.conf check lilo.conf to see if it has an append= line Because each image can have only one append= statement, you must append hdc=ide-scsi to the existing statement, like this: append=" devfs=mount quiet hdc=ide-scsi" multiple drives look like this " devfs=mount quiet hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" If a boot image does not have an existing append statement, add the following line to the boot image. add the following line to /etc/modules.conf: append="hdc=ide-scsi" After you've saved your modifications, run lilo. It should look something like this: [root@localhost/etc]# lilo Added mand * Added linux-up Added failsafe Added floppy [root@localhost/etc]# If you get an error message do not restart the PC after reboot try cdrecord -scanbus If you're lucky, it will give you a SCSI device number for the CDRW Thats what I did and it worked a charm Andrwe D >I am also having troubles with my cdrw. I have never used it with Linux before so i have absolutly no idea about what i'm doing. > >I have a Creative CD-RW 12-10-32x. > >dmesg says: >hda: IBM-DHEA-38451, ATA DISK drive >hdc: CREATIVE CD-RW RW1210E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive >hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/472KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33) >hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA >Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > >/sbin/lsmod shows no scsi modules loaded so i do /sbin/modprobe scsi_mod >no errors. > >/sbin/lsmod shows: >Module Size Used by >scsi_mod 91072 0 > >dmesg now shows: >SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > >/usr/bin/cdrecord -scanbus shows: >Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling >cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. >cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. > >/sbin/lsmod now shows: >Module Size Used by >sg 28624 0 (autoclean) (unused) >scsi_mod 91072 1 [sg] > >i dont know what I should be doing. Can anyone help? >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ >More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
