cdrecord expects CD-RW drives to be SCSI and does not know how to work with
IDE drives. (I think cdrdao also expects SCSI driver, but you might want to
check that.)
This limitation isn't as bad as it sounds; the Linux kernel knows how to
"fake" SCSI values for IDE devices. The kernel driver is the one for
scsi-ide emulation.
To make it work, you need to load these modules (or have equivalent
functionality compiled directly into the kernel):
# the stuff to enable ide-scsi emulation for the CD-ROM
scsi_mod
sr_mod scd0
sg
ide-scsi
You also need to tell the kernel at boot time what IDE device(s) to treat
as SCSI. You do this with a lilo.conf entry like this one:
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
(Change "hdd" to the IDe designator appropriate to your setup, of course).
There may be other details that are slipping my mind right now. (I copied
these bits from my own setup here, but it's been some time since I set one
of these up, so the steps are not fresh in my memory.) I think there is a
CD-RW HowTo; you might check at ibiblio for it.
At 09:41 AM 10/10/02 +0800, azie wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just bought a CD-RW and I can't seems to make it work with Linux. I'm
>running RH7.3 dualboot with XP Home Edition. As for the CD-RW, it's a TDK
>Cyclone with E-IDE/ATAPI Interface connected to secondary master (hdc).
>
>Everytime I tried the command "cdrecord -scanbus", the result would be :
>
>[root@localhost root]# cdrecord -scanbus
>Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling
>cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
>cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
>root.
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