On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:09:56PM +0200, Norbert Kamenicky wrote
> Hi,
>
> I have i865PE based mobo + SATA HDD on /dev/sda (primary/master).
> I had to setup BIOS to SATA+PATA (combined) mode, for my burner,
> which is secondary/master.
>
> BIOS sees both drives and even (older) Knoppix 3.7 is booting no problem
> (ide-scsi module is used for CDRW handling on /dev/scd0).
>
> I like to use CDRW in ATAPI mode, but kernel 2.6.11
> (I tried vanilla-sources-2.6.11.7 and also gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r6)
> do not recognize my burner, "dmesg |grep hd" shows only SATA HDD.
>
> I tried to add hdx=cdrom (x={a,b,c,d}) to boot prompt, but it doesn't
> help at all.
You probably have to be root to do the following. Try the command...
cdrecord dev=help >x.txt 2>&1
and look at the contents of x.txt with your favourite text editor or
file viewer. cdrecord sends diagnostic output to stderr, not stdout,
which is why the weird redirection is required.
Look for lines beginning with... "Transp. layer ind.:"
They list the type of transports potentially available. On my system,
the transports listed are ATA: and ATAPI: (plus REMOTE:, which is not
applicable to my system). Therefore, I can use either of...
cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA:
cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:
They both generate a list CDROM/DVDROM devices. The "ATA:" version
returns the list immediately, but the "ATAPI:" version spins its wheels
for a few seconds before outputting the list. The available transports
may be different on your system. Can you get any of your available
transport options to return a list?
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and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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