On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 12:26 pm, Technoslick wrote: > Hi, Anne, > > I never noticed your interest in having your DVD set-up with SCSI emulation > until now. I am a bit baffled. I have a Liteon DVD-ROM player in my > multi-boot XP Pro/Mandrake 9.0 box, so I looked at my fstab to see how mine > is set. The Liteon drive is set as /dev/hdc, not /dev/sd0. It works fine, > as well as a DVD drive 'can' work in an underpowered box. Can I ask why you > want SCSI emulation on the drive? Is it also a burner? I would like to know > what you want this set-up. > No, but I wanted the convenience of being able to read from the dvd and write to the cd-rw, but XCDroast couldn't see it. I understand k3b (I think it's called) could do it anyway, so I'll look at that when I've a moment.
I was under the impression, too, that it would not work for dvd film (as distinct from data) if it was not scsi emulated. Is this not so? BTW - is your Liteon drive coupled with a cd-rw? I'm curious after my parts supplier talked of some incompatibilities. Anne
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