It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:31:09 +0200 when Robert MacLean wrote: >I can't get the CDWriter to work under Linux. It keeps trying to use >it as a IDE ATAPI CDrom. I went through the CD Writer How To (couldn't >work out the first section) so I just edited the files it says, but >that didn't help. Infact when I did that the CDRom stopped working all >together. It was giving an error about sr_mod not being able to load >during startup. Am I missing something? Did you create a new link from /dev/scd0 to /dev/cdrom2 (or wherever the cdrw points to?) Did you add modprobe ide-scsi to /etc/rc.local? Did you add the append=" hdb=ide-scsi quiet" to lilo.conf (or to the appropriate grub menu) and reboot? That is what it takes to make things tick.. Paul -- We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same. -Barbara Hershey http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
