"Robert Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mandrake Linux 9 with ASUS P4B533 motherboard and TDK 40/12/48 or > Creative 12/10/32x IDE CD-ROM. > CD-ROM starts with auto-boot, displays > Mandrake install display and multiple initial steps including correctly > finding IDE hard drives. Message then states that no CD-ROM found and asks > for SCSI CD-ROM driver. CD-ROM is IDE connected.
Can you copy the messages you can see on consoles 3 and 4? > (Suggestions/comments from David & Nico in another forum: > 1) Make sure the cdrw is marked as a cd-rom in the bios/cmos. Not Auto. > 2) CDRW drives are recognized as scsi under linux, so the ide-scsi module > must be loaded. If the 1st trick doesn't work try this: > a) Instead of hitting enter to continue,press F1 to get to the > "prompt". > b) type: linux hdb=ide-scsi > (change hdb to match you system's configuration) > c) Now hit Enter. "CDRW drives are recognized as scsi under linux" is not exactly true; and this trick won't work for the install since ide-scsi is not supported during install. Actually the trick is here because the burning programs must use SCSI lowlevel access for burning, it's not to "access" the CDROM at all. The CDROM is IDE accessible like if it was not a burner. > Only kind of. The difficulty is that the "cdrecord" program at the root of > most Linux CD recording software was written specifically for SCSI, and has > never been *taught* how to handle IDE. Other programs, such as music or > video playing or auto-mounting software handle an IDE CD-RW just fine for > such uses. Ah, you knew it. Sorry. > Also, ignore the kernel boot wackiness: that was one of the stupidest bits > of bad advice ever written by a freeware author. Use an init script at boot > time to say "gee, do I have any IDE CD drives? I should load up the ide-scsi > driver!". This is because once the driver is loaded for the first IDE SCSI > drive, it's available for *ALL* of them. And adding the loading to the LILO > or grub setup just makes things more fragile there: this is perfectly > effective as an after-boot-time function, especially if you compile kernels > without loadable modules.) -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
