so if I just blew up my scd0 by using your command line below instead of checking to
make sure that it was correct " it should have been ln -fs scd0 cdrom2" how do I
get back my scd0?
"Guy T. Rice" wrote:
> Silvio Mazzaro wrote:
> >
> > Il lun, 24 gen 2000, webmedic ha scritto:
> > > Actually the cdburner will work just fine under 7.0 without recompiling the
> > > kernel.
> >
> > Without SCSI emulation enabled? And Generic SCSI Support enabled?
> > My CD-RW... is IDE-ATAPI...
> > If I'dont recompile the kernel, there'so no way to make it works....(the CD-RW,
> > I mean....)
>
> Air will auto-detect most ATAPI CD-Writers and automatically add a line in
> lilo.conf to append something like "hdd=ide-scsi" so that SCSI emulation is
> automatically enabled. Recompiling the kernel is unnecessary, support for
> this is provided in the stock kernel.
>
> > > Mine worked without doing anything.
> >
> > Is it SCSI or ATAPI?
>
> Mine is ATAPI, and it worked fine right out of the box for CD burning.
> However, I wasn't able to mount CD-ROMs normally using supermount (see
> below).
>
> > > For some reason my cdburner doesn't
> > > seem to like supermount though so I left it out.
> >
> > Mine too....:((((
>
> The problem with supermount is actually a problem with Mandrake's
> installer. Because it is enabling SCSI emulation for your CD-Writer, it
> should make /dev/cdrom2 (or whichever link corresponds to your CD-Writer) a
> link to /dev/scd0, but instead it makes a link to /dev/hdd (or whichever IDE
> drive it is), which makes the CD-Writer unusuable for _reading_ CD-ROMs.
> Execute these commands:
>
> cd /dev
> ln -fs cdrom2 scd0
>
> (replacing "cdrom2" with the appropriate link) and your CD-Writer will once
> again be readable, and will work fine with supermount.
>
> -- Guy T. Rice ---------------------------------- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --
> "Every human being should pursue his or her own dharma perfectly instead
> of following another's dharma imperfectly." -- Hindu scriptures
