Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian
Walter Dnes wrote: I have a DVD (hdc) and a CDRW (hdd) on a machine. The only defined mount is /cdrom, which is actually the DVD. In Redhat, I simply added append=hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi to lilo.conf, ran lilo and re-boot and both of them worked as did cdrecord. This does not work in Debian (2.4.18-bf2.4). That should be enough for Debian as well. (shrug) Works for me. Further Googling suggested that I add a line to modules.conf. Looking at modules.conf, I saw dire warnings against manual editing, and that I was to use update-modles instead. According to the manpage, I'm supposed to create a file in /etc/modutils. Change references of modules.conf to /etc/modules instead. Here are my instructions for setting up a CD-RW drive on Debian. Perhaps they will help. This sets up a very particular configuration. You will have to adapt it for your installation. Note that these instructions match a tuned modular kernel such as kernel-image-2.4.20-2-k7. The bf24 kernel should have all of the modules compiled in and should work. But I don't use that kernel myself and so can't say for sure. And I have seen problems with module conflicts being completely unresolvable when trying to compile everything into the kernel statically. Take 'autofs' and 'autofs4' as an example, you need a modular kernel to get the fixed autofs4. Besides you probably want the tuned, modular kernel anyway. So that might be your first task, to update to an appropriate modular kernel first. See the previous postings about using 'modconf' or similar method to install your network and sound drivers. Bob Setting up a CD-RW drive I am going to assume that the CD-ROM is on a master IDE device and that the CD-RW is a slave IDE device on the same cable since that is a typical configuration. In order to use the CD writer it must appear as a SCSI device. In that case you might as well treat both of the devices as SCSI for consistency. First you need the kernel to load the ide-scsi module at boot time. Put the name of that driver in /etc/modules. In /etc/modules place the following: ide-scsi Note for pure SCSI disk based systems. In an IDE based system the ide-probe-mod and ide-mod drivers will have been loaded during the initial part of the boot. But in a SCSI based system there is no need for those drivers. Unless you have an IDE CD writer in which case you will need them and they will not be automatically detected for inclusion in an initrd. Therefore you will need to add these drivers explicitly in the /etc/modules file. Thanks George Robbert for providing this information. Note that in 2.4.22 ide-probe became ide-detect. Thanks Brian Weaver for providing this information. ide-probe-mod ide-scsi The ide-scsi module can only adapt an IDE device to a SCSI if it has not already been grabbed by the normal IDE layer. Therefore the kernel must be instructed to load the ide-scsi driver for these devices at boot time such that the ide-scsi driver will be loaded first. After modifying the /etc/lilo.conf file you will need to run lilo and you will need to reboot. (Or edit grub's menu.lst and run update-grub for grub users.) In /etc/lilo.conf place the following: append=hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi The hdc device is your master device which I am assuming will be your CD-ROM device. The hdd device is your slave device which I am assuming will be your CD-RW device. Test your configuration using cdrecord -scanbus. It should be able to see your CD devices. cdrecord -scanbus At this point things are configured for the kernel to handle the devices correctly as SCSI devices. Now we set up the rest of the system to know about these. Typically on Linux systems the device is aliased as a symlink in /dev. Remove any previous aliases. Create new aliases for the new devices. rm -f /dev/cdrom rm -f /dev/cdrw ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrw Create mount points for these devices. These could go anywhere on your filesystem. Typically on Debian they will be mounted in / as /cdrom and /cdrw. However another common convention is to mount these under /mnt as /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrw. For now I will go with the Debian default and show them in /cdrom and /cdrw. mkdir -p /cdrom /cdrw Configure those device nodes and mount points in your filesystem table so that they can be easily mounted. The configuration shown here allows any user to mount and unmount these devices as themself and root capability is not needed. In /etc/fstab place the following: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrw /cdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 You may be questioning the 'ro' option, read-only, in the cdrw entry in the above fstab. That is because when mounting the disk like this it looks like a cdrom and is not writable using this method. When mounting it as a filesystem it is being mounted as a cdrom device only.
Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian
On 30. November 2003 at 9:39PM -0500, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:52:01AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote Create a file in /etc/modutils containing the following: options ide-cd ignore=\hdc hdd\ alias scd0 sr_mod alias scd1 sr_mod pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi I think I may have screwewd up somewhere on the setup. Here are a few excerpts from /var/log/dmesg ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ide-cd hdc: driver not present Maybe the driver isn't compiled as a module. Since ide-cd isn't available, maybe just specifying the hdc=ide-scsi (and forgetting all about the non-existent ide-cd module) in lilo would do the trick (I'm not sure because I'm using grub). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:24:47AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote Here are my instructions for setting up a CD-RW drive on Debian. Perhaps they will help. This sets up a very particular configuration. You will have to adapt it for your installation. ELVIS Thank you, thank you, thank you verrry verrry much. /ELVIS It's working now. In /etc/modules place the following: ide-scsi This appears to be the critical item I was missing. Test your configuration using cdrecord -scanbus. It should be able to see your CD devices. cdrecord -scanbus m450:~# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HITACHI ' 'DVD-ROM GD-5000 ' '0110' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX100E ' '1.0m' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrw I used the names /dev/dvdrom and /dev/cdrw, mounted on /dvdrom and /cdrw, respectively. Otherwise, I followed your instructions to the letter. Thanks again. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:08:04 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a DVD (hdc) and a CDRW (hdd) on a machine. The only defined mount is /cdrom, which is actually the DVD. In Redhat, I simply added append=hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi to lilo.conf, ran lilo and re-boot and both of them worked as did cdrecord. This does not work in Debian (2.4.18-bf2.4). Further Googling suggested that I add a line to modules.conf. Looking at modules.conf, I saw dire warnings against manual editing, and that I was to use update-modles instead. According to the manpage, I'm supposed to create a file in /etc/modutils. There are, however, no examples whatsoever. Can somebody who's gotten a similar setup running please post their files? Thanks. Alternatively, there's supposed to be undocumented native support for ATAPI devices in cdrecord; has anybody figured that out? Create a file in /etc/modutils containing the following: options ide-cd ignore=\hdc hdd\ alias scd0 sr_mod alias scd1 sr_mod pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi -- paul The average lifespan of a Web page today is 100 days. This is no way to run a culture. Internet Archive Board Chairman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:52:01AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote Create a file in /etc/modutils containing the following: options ide-cd ignore=\hdc hdd\ alias scd0 sr_mod alias scd1 sr_mod pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi I think I may have screwewd up somewhere on the setup. Here are a few excerpts from /var/log/dmesg ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ide-cd hdc: driver not present /dev/hdc: No such device or address ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ide-cd hdd: driver not present /dev/hdd: No such device or address I'm not a kernel hacker, but I can ./configure make make install What is the procedure to set up ide-cd and make it available ? Here are some more excerpts from dmesg... Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-5000, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: CD-RW CRX100E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4998/255/63 ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Aug 13 2003 DC390: 0 adapters found 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.016. 3w-: No cards with valid units found. request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1 chain_pool: 0 bytes @ c1206f00 (512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers) -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting CDRW to work in Debian
I have a DVD (hdc) and a CDRW (hdd) on a machine. The only defined mount is /cdrom, which is actually the DVD. In Redhat, I simply added append=hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi to lilo.conf, ran lilo and re-boot and both of them worked as did cdrecord. This does not work in Debian (2.4.18-bf2.4). Further Googling suggested that I add a line to modules.conf. Looking at modules.conf, I saw dire warnings against manual editing, and that I was to use update-modles instead. According to the manpage, I'm supposed to create a file in /etc/modutils. There are, however, no examples whatsoever. Can somebody who's gotten a similar setup running please post their files? Thanks. Alternatively, there's supposed to be undocumented native support for ATAPI devices in cdrecord; has anybody figured that out? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email users are divided into two classes; 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking 2) Those who wish they did -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
