[Sheflug] CD-Writer

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Richard writes:
 > Dear All
 > 
 > I've finally given up using my LS120 and got hold of a CD-Writer which
 > I know works very well under Linux.  It's an IDE device.

 > The problem is that just like my LS120 drive I can't work out what to
 > do with /etc/fstab to get my system to recognise the second IDE CD-ROM
 > drive on my system.  Previously the LS120 was recognised as the second
 > IDE drive.  I've put the new CD-Writer on the cables that were
 > attached to the LS120.  My present fstab looks like this....
 > 
 > 
 > /dev/hda3	/	reiserfs	defaults 1 1
 > /dev/hda1	/boot	ext2	defaults 1 2
 > /dev/cdrom	/cdrom	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
[blah]
 > /dev/hdd	/LS120	auto	noauto,user 0 0
 > 

Richard, here's a chunk of my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda6               /                       reiserfs        defaults        1 1
/dev/hda1               /boot	        ext2            sync            1 2
/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cdrom              iso9660         noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/scd0               /mnt/cdrw	             iso9660         noauto,owner,ro 0 0


/dev/scd0 is my Yamaha *IDE* CDRW drive (normally /dev/hdh).
 
I've got SCSI support, SCSI CDROM support and SCSI generic support
built in to the kernel, SCSI-IDE emulation as a module, and the
following lines in my /etc/modules.conf:

options ide-cd ignore=hdh #  tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdh
alias scd0 sr_mod #  load sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install sg     modprobe ide-scsi #  load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi #  load ide-scsi before sr_mod


I'm not entirely all this lot is required - IIRC it's straight out of
the CD writing howto.
Either way - it works, which is the important bit.

The following line is added to /etc/lilo.conf:

append="ide-scsi=/dev/hdh"

You should be able to copy my config across to your system, just
change /dev/hdh to /dev/hdd for your system.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner

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