Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 08 May 2005 19:25:08 -0700, rob3 wrote: > > > >>For using CDRW, etc I only know about how to use ide-scsi by passing to >>the kernel during boot. But I get a warning during boot that it is >>deprecated, and instead I should be using ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX >>as device. So I tried putting in hdc=ide-cd and I got an error message >>saying it was invalid. I wonder what I am doing wrong? >> >> > >ide-cd is not a kernel option, it is a module. Set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD >in your kernel config, if your CDRW already shows up as /dev/hdc you >already have it set, and remove any ide-scsi or ide-cd options from your >bootloader config. > >
Also, when you're burning, if you're using the ATA packet interface instead of SCSI (which you have to do now that ide-scsi emulation is no longer available), you would pass "dev=ATAPI:x,x,x" to cdrecord instead of just "dev=x,x,x" (which you would do if it were SCSI.) James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
