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check out www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html for a pretty
thorough tutorial on the whole process including loading certain drives as
ide-scsi. it looks as though redhat automatically setup your writer with
ide-scsi. this usually involves adding options to your bootloader
configuration file or loading the appropriate modules.
stephen
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Gregory Weber wrote:
> I should have mentioned that I was using RH 7.1. I actually I didn't do
> anything for the writer. Taking a look at /dev, I have this. Do I need to
> change this link? I guess I am not sure how to make the reader use the
> ide-scsi module.
>
> Greg
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 10 22:20 cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 18 08:00 cdrom1 -> /dev/hdd
>
> On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:16 pm, you wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 September 2001 16:06, you wrote:
> > > I am having some difficulty using xcdroast (xcdroast-0.98alpha9-1). I
> > > recently built a new system and bought a CD writer (ACER 1208A which I
> > > saw seemed usable according to a blurb on linux.com). I have another
> > > CDROM that I have used for a couple of years with no problems and
> > > installed in the new system. I expect xcdroast to see both the writer
> > > and the reader. However, xcdroast only recognizes the CD Writer which is
> > > set up as the master (the other CDROM is set to slave). I have the
> > > system configured with two hard drives on the primary and the CD drives
> > > on the secondary. I can use both CD drives (/dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1),
> > > but xcdroast sees only the writer. Any ideas? You may have guessed that
> > > I am not a Linux expert.
> >
> > xcdroast wants both drives to use the ide-scsi module-- even the one which
> > is read-only. Just do whatever you did for the writer to the reader as
> > well, and it should see it fine. don't forget to re-direct your /dev/cdrom
> > symlink (on my Suse system, for instance, it's "/dev/sr0")
> >
> > -Beldon
>
>
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