I realised that I only had SCSI emulation and SCSI ide support but not SCSI cd rom support. I only have one drive so I disabled ATAPI cd support and voila the CD drive works just fine. Thanks for the help...
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > Did you compile ide-scsi support ? If not, append a > hdx=ide-scsi > > to your append= line in lilo.conf, where hdx is you CDRW drive. > Then 'modprobe ide-scsi sr_mod sg' and in the end 'cdrecord -scanbus'. > This should work. There is no problem if some of them are compiled as > modules or into the kernel. It is important that you boot with > hdx=ide-scsi and that you have support for scsi, ide-scsi, scsi cdrom > (sr_mod) and scsi generic (sg). There was another thread on ATAPI CDRW a > few days ago. Search the archives for details. > > Good Luck, > Ionut > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:59:02AM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been trying to get a Yamaha CDR drive working using kernel 2.2.18 > > in a 2.2 version of Potato. I added SCSI support in the kernel, it comes > > up as recognised. I also put the append statement in lilo (I don't use a > > modular kernel). I have had the drive working before, but reinstalled > > Debian on it. I tried the link statement for the CD-Writer HOWTO: > > > > cd /dev/ && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom > > > > When I try to mount the cd rom the following error results: > > > > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > PS please send correspondonce to my address because for some reason I > > cannot subscribe to this list. After sendiing a confirmation e mail > > nothing comes back. > > > > Thanks in advance.... > > > > JKA > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > *************** > * Ionut Georgescu > * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ > * Registered Linux User #244479 > * > * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you > * can do anything the computer is able to do." > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
