I really would like to be able to use my CD-writer in Linux, but it seems so
complicated. I wade through man pages, how-to's, emails, readme's, and I get
close, but never there.
I have a CDRW at hdc, and a Zip drive at hdd.
I've got lilo.conf set right, and I added "modprobe ide-scsi" to rc.local.
Interestingly, the Zip comes in before the CDRW:
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '13.A' Removable Disk
0,1,0 1) 'Memorex ' 'CDRW-2216 ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM
I found some info on MandrakeUser.org that led me to delete /dev/cdrom and
create a symlink /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd1. Just guessing, I also created a
/dev/zip linked to /dev/scd0.
Xcdroast seems to see the CDRW OK, although I haven't learned enough about
the program to actually try anything. I've used a Windows program to burn CDs,
but it was a lot less complicated.
I haven't been able to mount the CDRW and Zip, and I'm guessing I need the
answer to the question I asked at the top. This is what I have in fstab:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
/dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1
I =think= I still need to disable generic IDE support, and I =think= I need to
put the following statements somewhere, but I don't know where:
options ide-cd ignore=hdb # tell the ide-cd module to ignore
hdb
alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi
Do you see what remains to be done?
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Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
