On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 16:48, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
> Well I tried exactly that (hdd=ide-scsi in grub.conf) with ide-scsi
> as module,  but k3b says it finds no cd-rw device; and besides I
> cannot read any cd anymore?? I know this is due to the 'hdd=ide-scsi'
> in grub.conf because when I remove that I can read cd's as usual.
> My cd-burner works perfectly with all other distros I have tried.  
> What did I miss?

OK, the hdd=ide-scsi in grub.conf is right...next check out 
/etc/devfs.conf:

# Give the cdrw group write permissions to /dev/sg0
# This is done to have non root user use the burner (scan the scsi bus)
REGISTER        ^scsi/host.*/bus.*/target.*/lun.*/generic    PERMISSIONS 
root.cdrw 660

# Create /dev/cdrom for the first cdrom drive
LOOKUP          ^cdrom$          CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink 
cdroms/cdrom0 cdrom
REGISTER        ^cdroms/cdrom0$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname 
cdrom
UNREGISTER      ^cdroms/cdrom0$   CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrom

# Create /dev/cdrw for the first cdrom on the scsi bus
# (change 'sr0' to suite your setup)
LOOKUP          ^cdrw$          CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink sr0 cdrw
REGISTER        ^sr0$           CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname cdrw
UNREGISTER      ^sr0$           CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink cdrw

...and change the entry in /etc/fstab for /mnt/cdrom from /dev/hdd to 
/dev/sr0

Then you should be good to go.

Peter
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