On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Perry, David J wrote: > I need some help installing a CD writer on a Redhat 8.0 system. > > It is a CD-RW brand CDR-6S52 IDE device only a couple of months > old and was working in a Windows box. It is installed as the slave on > the first IDE cable and shows up as /dev/hdb . There is no SCSI > hardware on the system. > > I can read information off CDs so the reader part is OK. > > When I run CDroast it says "Failed to scan the SCSI-bus, either no > permission to access the generic scsi devices or no scsi support enabled > in the kernel." > > How to I install the generic scsi support in the kernel? > > Any help would be appreciated. I've spent a number of hours on > Google and am just going around in circles.
You need ide-scsi and scsi generic support enabled. Try insmod ide-scsi & insmod sg and then this cdrecord -scanbus and see if it finds anything. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
