On Wednesday 23 October 2002 19:20, Bryan Simmons wrote: > The CD-ROM in question is a CD-RW. The system set it up as /dev/scd0 > which is not accessible from hdparam. if I turn it into an ide device, > I will no longer be able to write CDs with it.
You are missing the point, your cd-rom is no differnt to anyone else's, you set things like dma with hdparm but you do it on the underlting device which is /dev/hdX where X is a letter a b c or d. a = master device primary controller. b = slave device primary controller. c = master device sec controller. d = slave device sec controller. hdparm /dev/hdc shows drive info; hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc will set dma to "on" on drive "c" as per above. /dev/scd0 is irrelavant. > > Does anyone know a way around this? I can't hardly believe that all the > millions of Linux users have been, and still are, stuck with CD-RWs that > have to masquerade as SCSI devices. There is no way around it, simply read the proper documentation, in this case the CD-Writing HOWTO. IDE-ATAPI CD-RW devices only work with SCSI emulation as they only do in widows as well. If you find a better way you can tell us millions how you did it then. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
