Re: [Sheflug] Help - CDROM

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Ian Wright wrote:
> 
> Also, as far as I can tell from the documentation I have seen, you can still
> only use a SCSI CD writer on linux - is this correct or could I set up a
> spare HP 7200 IDE drive on this system?

 You can use most IDE and SCSI CDR(W) drives with Linux these days,
however they run using SCSI emulation, which might be what you're
thinking of.
Don't worry, it's all fairly straight forward.

 I'm running a Yamaha IDE CDRW, which instead of being /dev/hdd (really
IDE but..) is /dev/scd0 (..Linux is treating it as a SCSI drive) - as
far as I'm concerned when I'm using the drive, that's the only
difference.
 With the kernel you need to ensure that you have SCSI emulation and
SCSI CDROM support, and use the append keyword/command in lilo.conf to
tell the system which drive should be treated as a SCSI device (the
CDRW).

 There is a CD writing howto...it's pretty clear.

 Baz.

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