[ale] cdr problems

[Dow Hurst]

I have modeprobe insert the ide-scsi module in my /etc/init.d/local
startup file in my home Linux box with IDE CD and DVD drives.  Also,
make sure your case temp is low enough to not fry your cdwriter as
during writes the heat builds up.  I had a SCSI CDwriter at work that
lost it's fan and I found out about it by the SGI O2 starting to have
bus errors and locking up.  Once you insert the ide-scsi module,
cdrecord -scanbus should find your drive.  You may need to link the
/dev/cdrom to the /dev/sg0 or /dev/sr0, whatever your distro uses.  What
is the purpose of the sr_mod?  All I needed was the ide-scsi to make my
IDE CD-RW work.  I believe it is a Lite-On burnproof that is brand new. 
Also have a DVD that is seen just fine by cdrecord and XCDRoast.  I am
using SuSE 7.1 w/patches right now.
dow


Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Has anyone played with IDE cdr's? I have on and this is the deal, whenever
> I run `cdrecord -scanbus` I get this error.
> 
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
> 
> But this is what dmesg shows,
> 
> hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1024kB Cache, DMA
> 
> So with that said, let me tell you where I am at. I have this in the
> /etc/modules.conf
> 
> options ide-cd ignore=hdd            # tell the ide-cd module to ignore
> hdb
> alias scd0 sr_mod                    # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
> pre-install sg     modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
> pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
> pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd   before ide-scsi
> 
> Now there is a little problem, I am not huge on using modules however,
> shouldn't those load when I boot? Did I do something wrong? Cause I see no
> modules when first boot. If I load all of those by hand I still get the
> error. Hmm?
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you
> Ken
> 
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