On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:17 am, Joseph Feigon wrote:
As a long time Mandrake user, I am continually pleased
with the contributions to Expert, and have had
numerous questions answered by the talent and resource
of everyone's contributions.
I am experiencing a minor challenge with an 8.2
production workstation. I am running a stock
2.4.19-16mdksmp on a Dell Precision 410, loaded with
multiple SCSI drives, video capture, and a single IDE
interface. When I added a SCSI CDRW drive to the
system, the IDE CDROM was no longer recognized on
boot, and I haven't been able to figure out how to
configure it. Ripping and Burning is so much faster
with two separate drives, and the fact that one is
sitting idle, is quite frustrating. Before the
addition of the SCSI CDRW, /dev/cdrom pointed to the
IDE connected CDROM.
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty/m%d
3 pty/s%d
4 tts/%d
5 cua/%d
6 lp
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
21 sg
29 fb
81 video_capture
128 ptm
136 pts/%d
162 raw
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
8 sd
9 md
11 sr
65 sd
66 sd
And under /dev, cdrom is setup as follows:
cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0
where cdrom0 - ../scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd.
So, how do I make use of the IDE CDROM? There are no
entries in the /dev directory pointing to any /dev/h*,
as the entire system is SCSI, sans the IDE based
CDROM.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Joseph
It is unclear from your description if the IDE is a CDRW or a simple IDE. In
the first case, the system would use ide-scsi to recognize it as a scsi
device because cdrecord looks only at scsi devices. Actually from time to
time there is a debate about defaulting to ide-scsi for all CD/dvd devices,
but there are always a few cheaply made dvds which won't work under scsi
emulation. But for your purposes since it isn't a cheap DVD, this solution
is probably preferable:
OK find out from yout boot screen where that furshlugginer IDE device is. For
demo purposes I assume it is /dev/hda
Go to Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot configuration and put
hda=ide-scsi
in your append line (for all linux boots except failsafe) YES THIS WORKS FOR
ORDINARY CD drives as well as CDRWs.
now boot and open a terminal su to root
# cdrecord --scanbus
should tell you where it is
You may need to make up /dev entries for it and a line in /etc/fstab You
already have a model to follow in the cdrom0 entry
Civileme
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Joseph Feigon
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