[ale] cdr problems

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi there, 

So the only mod you need to get cdrecord to see the burner is
the ide-scsi mod? I guess I can try that...

Thanks
Ken


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Dow Hurst wrote:

> 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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