On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 01:08 pm, many eyes noted that James Sparenberg wrote:
<snip>
> > So I took a panel of the box, left the CD drives where they were, but
> > just jumpered the writer as slave again, and the reader as master.
> > Invoked k3b, it now recognised the writer as such and the reader
> > correctly also. The reader still worked and the writer with k3b burned
> > CD's without and trouble.
> >
> > Thought I would pass this on in case it might help anyone that was having
> > trouble with k3b not recognising writers>
> >
> > Charlie.
>
> Charlie this almost sounds like a problem FreeBSD had around the time of
> 2.7/2.8 In order to do a media install from CD the Reader had to be
> slave to the drive you intended to install on. Curiosity here. If they
> are in the position of being two readers (as far as k3b is concerned
> what is the output of cdrecord -scanbus ? I'm curious if the problem is
> in k3b or lower down in cdrecord.
>
> James
Sorry James, because I didn't know to do that and even now don't know what it
shows; I didn't try that to find out whatever information it displays. But
here is is as it is now, though it might be no help :-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-40125S ' 'ZS0N' 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) *
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
Charlie.
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