Civileme wrote:
>
> Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> > Alan,
> >
> > Assuming L-M 7.1 and the new burner is an ATAPI IDE device, as root
> > you must set up hd?=ide-scsi in your lilo.conf stanza (then run lilo)
> > as well as place
> >
> > modprobe ide-scsi
> > modprobe sg
> >
> > at the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
> >
> > After reboot from scratch, you can then access the cd-reader part as
> > /dev/sr0, and cdrecord -scanbus should find your cd-writer part.
> >
>
> Well, it is more effective to do
> supermount -i disable
> rm -f /dev/cdrom
>
> In /etc/conf.modules add the lines
>
> alias block-major-11 ide-scsi
> postinstall modprobe ide-scsi
>
> then back to the command line
>
> ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
>
> If you use supermount--it is best to have another link to the
> scsi_hostadapter in /etc/conf.modules. THis allows one to be supermounted
> while the "duplicate" remains unmounted and ready for the burners to detect.
>
> Anyway, this will do what Ron suggested and make the burner device visible as
> an ordinary CD drive as well.. But remember burners work on an unmounted
> drive. Mount to play, unmount to burn.
>
I appreciate everyones help. I did get it to work last night late.
Thanks a bunch.. I'm gonna give it a workout tonite.
Alan
