seth, you are a saint! i was writing a CD, literally, within 2 minutes of reading your email.
that includes the time it took to compile the ide-scsi module. :-) at some point today or tomorrow, i'll start teaching myself how to write DVD's. i recall reading that there are versions of cdrecord that are capable of writing to DVD. pete On Thu 01 Apr 04, 3:05 PM, Seth Nagao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Pete, > > I don't know about the ide-cd module, but I use is the ide-scsi module. > Then I specify in the kernel at LILO/grub prompt (or append in > lilo.conf): > hdX=ide-scsi > > dmesg follows: > ---- > hdX: attached ide-scsi driver. > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Vendor: TDK Model: DVDRW0404N Rev: 1.08 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > And using cdrecord -scanbus: > ----- > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'TDK ' 'DVDRW0404N ' '1.08' Removable > CD-ROM > 0,1,0 1) * > 0,2,0 2) * > 0,3,0 3) * > 0,4,0 4) * > 0,5,0 5) * > 0,6,0 6) * > 0,7,0 7) * > > cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=16 -v cdimage.iso > Hope some of that helps. > --Seth > > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 05:20, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > hi all, > > > > i bought a memorex EIDE cdrw / dvdrw. the box didn't say ATAPI, neither > > did the manual, but looking at dmesg, this drive registered with the > > kerel as ATAPI. > > > > i've never played around with IDE-SCSI CD writers before. all my > > experience is with pure good ol' SCSI. > > > > looking through the kernel config, i found a driver called ide-cd which > > looks like what i want (can someone confirm this?). > > > > i made the ide-cd module and insmoded it. > > > > according to the cdrecord man page, i need to specify the SCSI device > > name with the transport layer. the SCSI transport layer is default, so > > instead of what i'm used to: > > > > cdrecord -audio -v dev=0,5,0 *.wav > > > > i now need to specify a transport layer: > > > > cdrecord -audio -v dev=ATAPI:0,5,0 *.wav > > > > > > > > this means i need to get a SCSI device number for my new ATAPI drive. i > > did: > > > > cdrecord -scanbus > > > > and saw all my SCSI devices, but not the ATAPI CDRW / DVDRW. > > > > > > any suggestions? > > > > for those of you with ATAPI CDRW's or DVDRW's: can you please run > > "cdrecord -scanbus" and tell me if you see your device in the output? > > > > thanks! > > pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
