Please give us a little more info.
What kind of cd burner do you have? In particular, is it an IDE or SCSI?
If is IDE you will have to recompile the kernel with support for IDE/SCSI
host emulation.
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I haven't been able to get my CD-RW drive working under Linux yet and hoping for
> a few helpful hints. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 (2.2.9-27 via RPM) with the
> default cdrecord (1.82?) and xcdroaster from the distro. When I run 'cdrecord
> -scanbus' I get the error " ". When I start up xcdroaster I get the message
> that the SCSI generic module (sg) isn't loaded into the kernel. When I do an
> 'insmod sg' it says it's already loaded and lsmod confirms this (it has
> [autoclean ?] in the right column). By looking at the CD-Writing Mini-HOWTO the
> Mandrake 2.2.9-27 kernel seems to have all required components either loadable
> as modules or compiled into the kernel. Am I missing something?
>
> I've tried running under my id and as root and neither work. Do I need to mount
> the device before it can be found?
>
> Any help much appreciated as this is the last thing I need to get working before
> I can wipe Windoze off my hard drive...thanks!
>
> Steve Fox 8?)
> http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~sjfox (IBM Intranet)
> http://pcxtreme.org (External)
>
>
