Dennis, yes, I've got "hdc=ide-scsi" in its proper place. Miark ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible > On Thursday 21 June 2001 22:42, you wrote: > > On Thursday 21 June 2001 12:53, you wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm running 8.0 and can't read my Creative CD-RW RW8433E drive at hdc. I > > > looked through old messages, but couldn't find a solution. Here's my > > > set-up: > > > > > > hda - hard drive hdc - CD-RW > > > hdb - <nothing> hdd - DVD-ROM > > > > Can you read it as /dev/cdrom? How about as /dev/scd0? I can't recall why > > but I think you're not supposed to reference hdc except as > > /dev/scd0-->/dev/cdrom/. > > > > On my system ( I have a harddrive at hda and a cd-rw at hdc) there are no > > symlinks from any of the hdN devices. Instead, my drive is /dev/scd0 which > > is linked to /dev/cdrom. > > > > Any particular reason why you need to reference hdc? > > > > - Chris > Look in lilo.conf and see if you are booting the hda with the following > scripts in lilo: > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hda1 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append=" hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy quiet" > vga=788 > read-only > > except the above hdd= will read something differrent. If the hdc=ide-scsi > line is not there then you should add it and then as su in console at the > prompt type "lilo" without the quotes. Sorry if you already know some of this. > Any way, that should get you ability to read your cdrw. If not come back and > let us know. Onward , > -- > > Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 >
