Hello, I have for a long time been trying to get my CD-R to work under Linux, It's a Phillips CDD2600 connected to an AdvanSys ISA controller. I have compiled in SCSI support as modules in the kernel. That is to say; SCSI support, generic SCSI support, SCSI CD-ROM support and the AdvanSys low level driver.
All modules seems to load just fine when I use insmod on them, but if I try an rmmod, it says that they are not loaded. At some point in the past, on an older RedHat system, I was able to get one step furter. xcdroast (isn't that the name?) actually found a SCSI device, but was unable to use it. My first step would be to be able to mount the CD-R as a CD-ROM. I've tried to mount it using /dev/sg*, but it complains that that's not a block device (which is true, at least on my system). I've also tried /dev/scd*, but it then comlains about wrong major and minor numbers. Also note: on the older system mentioned, cdrecord -scanbus yielded some garbagge indicating that there was something there, but it didn't know what. Now, the same command yields nothing. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. BTW: I'm running Potato on an Alpha with kernel 2.4.5. The older RedHat system mentioned was RedHat 5.2/6.0 running a 2.2.x kernel (don't remember exactly which one). - IT
