David, That sounds like a plan. Next week, I'll wipe out Sol x86 and put Debian back on. I don't think that sarge gives me the 2.6 kernel, so I guess that I don't have to worry about what Greg added to this thread.
I'll let you know how it goes. Pete On Thu, 13 May 2004, David Cunningham wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Rohrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Thomas Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:23 PM > Subject: Re: cdrecord error > > > > Well, I couldn't get "cdrecord" to work under Debian, so I went back and > > installed Solaris x86. Funny thing happened when I did that. Solaris x86 > > was giving me the same error when I tried to run "cdrecord." After poking > > around for a while, I noticed that volmgt was on. I shut off volmgt, and > > viola! cdrecord worked on Solaris x86!!! > > > > Is there a volmgt on Debian in my way of using cdrecord? If someone out > > there knows, please pass it on as I would rather use debian than Sol x86. > > > > Pete > > > > It's a known issue on Solaris that you must disable volmgt in order for > cdrecord to work. On Linux you *must* have three things: (1) a parameter > passed to the kernel at boot time, (2) the ide-scsi kernel module loaded, > (3) cdrecord. > > Here's a step by step. Be root to proceed. First of all be sure you know > which device file (under /dev) refers to your cd burner. If it's primary > slave then it's /dev/hdb and if it's secondary master then it's /dev/hdc and > if it's secondary slave then it's /dev/hdd. > > Lat's say for sake of argument it's secondary master (/dev/hdc). Then your > lilo append line must look like this: > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > > If you already have an append line with other arguments in it then be sure > to include those arguments between the quotes. > The important part is that you use the correct device name, "hdc=ide-scsi" > or "hdd=ide-scsi" or whatever is needed. > > When this is done, run lilo, reboot and check to see if your kernel > recognized it. Issue this command: > dmesg | grep ide_setup > > You should see something like "ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi" appear. That takes > care of step 1. Now you need to load the ide-scsi driver. I'm going to > assume you don't have it compiled directly into the kernel. Issue this line > from the command prompt. > modprobe ide-scsi > > Now if you run dmesg you should see something like this toward the end of > the dmesg output: > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX0811 Rev: MYS2 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > Now you're very close to being able to use your burner. The last step is to > use cdrecord. Cdrecord expects your burner to be a scsi device. To find > the scsi device number you're best off typing this: > cdrecord --scanbus > > The output should resemble this (more or less): > Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 > Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX0811 ' 'MYS2' 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) * > scsibus1: > 1,0,0 100) 'SIIG' 'CompactFlash Car' '0113' Removable Disk > 1,1,0 101) * > 1,2,0 102) * > 1,3,0 103) * > 1,4,0 104) * > 1,5,0 105) * > 1,6,0 106) * > 1,7,0 107) * > > If that doesn't work try modprobe sg first. > This tells us the scsi device of the burner is 0,0,0. That's the argument > you provide to cdrecord. The following line works just fine on my system: > cdrecord -v -speed 8 -dev 0,0,0 example.iso > > All these things must be correct. You need to get the scsi device number > correct, the kernel must acknowledge your cd burner in the dmesg output, you > must supply the correct /dev/hdX device name, and the ide-scsi module must > be loaded. If any of these things are missing or wrong then all bets are > off. Hope this helps! > >
