Setting up CD-RW

Hello,

I just bought a CD-RW and I can't seems to make it work with Linux. I'm running RH7.3 dualboot with XP Home Edition. As for the CD-RW, it's a TDK Cyclone with E-IDE/ATAPI Interface connected to secondary master (hdc).

Everytime I tried the command "cdrecord -scanbus", the result would be :

[root@localhost root]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

Could anyone help me?

Thanks.

- azie -
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cdrecord expects CD-RW drives to be SCSI and does not know how to work with IDE drives. (I think cdrdao also expects SCSI driver, but you might want to check that.)

This limitation isn't as bad as it sounds; the Linux kernel knows how to "fake" SCSI values for IDE devices. The kernel driver is the one for scsi-ide emulation.

To make it work, you need to load these modules (or have equivalent functionality compiled directly into the kernel):

         # the stuff to enable ide-scsi emulation for the CD-ROM
         scsi_mod
         sr_mod scd0
         sg
         ide-scsi

You also need to tell the kernel at boot time what IDE device(s) to treat as SCSI. You do this with a lilo.conf entry like this one:

append="hdd=ide-scsi"

(Change "hdd" to the IDe designator appropriate to your setup, of course).

There may be other details that are slipping my mind right now. (I copied these bits from my own setup here, but it's been some time since I set one of these up, so the steps are not fresh in my memory.) I think there is a CD-RW HowTo; you might check at ibiblio for it.

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No-one is newbier than me and I managed to do it by following W.Trümper's CD-Writing HOWTO very very carefully, especially the bits about which files to edit.
Andrew
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