Have you read the CD-writing howto at:
http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/
I have a similar setup, ide hdds, ide/atapi cdrom, scsii cdrw (yamaha 8x24). I
found the howto covered all the setup hassles I had, incuding kernel setup.
Cheers,
Matt
On 12-Apr-2000 Joe wrote:
> I am not sure if my cdrom is going bad or if there is a hardware
> conflict or if this is a Linux kernel related issue.
>
> My system consists of:
> 1 PCI ethernet card using the dec tulip driver
> 1 floppy 1.44 Meg
> 1 WD hd 6 Gig (hdb) Linux RH 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14
> 1 Seagate 2.1 Gig (hda) NT 4.0 SP1
> 1 IDE/ATAPI cdrom drive
> 1 ncr53c8xx scsi card (compiled as module for scanner)
> 1 SB AWE 64 Sound Card
> 128 Meg of RAM
> 2 233Mhz MMX cpu's on a tyan tomcat MB
>
> and now
> 1 HP 9010i SCSI CD-RW drive
>
> (I think I need a bigger box;-))
>
> This weekend I added the SCSI cd-rw to my existing system. Now
> my IDE atapi cdrom does not work. At first I thought that there
> was a conflict between the cd-rw and the IDE/ATAPI cdrom so I
> disconnected the cd-rw.
>
> When I booted into NT I was able to use the IDE / ATAPI cdrom as
> long as the SCSI cdrom was not connected.
> When I booted into Linux I asm not able to use the IDE / ATAPI
> cdrom weather or not the SCSI cdrom is connected.
>
> I think that there is may be a hardware conflict, but don't
> understand why a SCSI drive and ide drive would conflict with
> each other? (This seems to be the case with NT)
>
> I also do not understand why a IDE drive that is about 1 - 2
> years old would just stop working under Linux.
>
> If you need the actual error messages I can send clips from my
> logs. Or anyother information.
>
> If you think my cdrom is going bad or gone can anyone recommend
> a 32x or faster inexpensive cdrom?
>
> Joe
>
>
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