[KLUG Members] cd burning setup

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 09:06, Adam Bultman wrote:
> This piques my attention:
> Now, do you include the scsi emulation, and the support for scsi cdroms
> into the kernel, or do you load when you need it?  When I compile into the
> kernel, all my drives run terrible (hard drives, too).  It would appear
> that my box is running all-or-nothing. so, I have to reboot to burn
> CD's...
> Oh, well.

First off, if you don't reserve the drive for ide-scsi emulation at
boot-time, the ide-cd driver "grabs it" and never lets go.  As such,
ide-scsi can't take control the devices and you don't get /dev/sg* (SCSI
generic) access.

Secondly, if you load ide-scsi emulation, you _must_ change your
/etc/fstab entries, as well as your /dev/cdrom (and /dev/cdrom1)
symlink(s) to point to /dev/scd0 (and /dev/scd1) SCSI CD-ROM _instead_
of /dev/hdc (and /dev/hdd) ATAPI device.

I suspect the second is why you can't access your devices.  Your
/etc/fstab is still set to use /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd for your CD-RW and
CD-ROM drives, when it should be /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1.  Again, do the
following:

- Change the /etc/fstab entries
- Change any /dev/cdrom* entries

-- Bryan

P.S.  You're not using kernel devfs, are you???

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