Yes , Misunderstood. I am talking about the additional cdrom(s) that may be on the system
I agree the burners have been installed under scsi-ide and work well However many people still have cdrom's or dvd's that they want to record from and these are not set up as scsi-ide and therefor not recognised from the burning programs dcd Richard Houser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > dcd wrote: > | Hi, > | Not sure where this should be addressed to but here goes. > | > | I've been using mandrake for a while now myself and the most common > | complaint I get from other new users > | is as follows > | It recognised my cdburner (and called it scsi-ide) > | But I cant get any of the cdburning programs to recognise my > cdrom(atapi > | ide) so I can burn on the fly like i do in windows. > | > | My suggestion is that detection of a cd burner, then alters any atapi > | cdroms detected to be scsi-ide links also. > | Can these co-exist with the std setup, ie links created but not obvious > | at the GUI level except when detected by programs such as xcdroast. > | > | dcd > | IMHO this would make the whole cdrom cdburning experience much easier > | especially as most howtos convert your cdrom to scsi-ide are written > | for the old /dev system no longer used by Mandrake > | > | > | > > I might not be understanding you, but as of Mandrake 8.2, my CD-burners > (3 different IDE models) have been properly configured and setup to use > the SCSI device names as assigned via scsi-ide. > > Did you possibly add the burner after installing the system (something I > did not test, or would you be willing to explain further? > > ======================================================================== > > Also, a small note for the mailing list maintainers: The original > message didn't have a reply to addess that would place it on the list. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAj14GJwACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1O+wACgj4W0LUR2N0F5LHJ4SKjWva8g > EnwAnjGE1ILIqDG1B3l/zz9XXUqFPj71 > =kZYN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >