[Gllug] help lost my CD-burner?

[John Winters]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:22, Steve Nicholson wrote:
[snip]
> This is the frustrating thing it looks to me as the right modules
> are loaded but I don't know enough about it to be sure.  I have all
> the modules built from what I can see but don't know what other ones I
> need to load.  Have compiled kernels before so might have to do this
> but seems a bit extreme when I'm sure it's something very simple that
> I'm missing/not doing.  It must be possible to do with modules.
> 
> these are the loaded modules at the moment.
> /home/steve# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> sg                     27940   0  (autoclean) (unused)
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.
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I don't see ide-scsi or sr_mod anywhere in that list.

I do the following to get a CD writer working.  First you have to tell
the system you don't want to access it as an IDE device.  You do this by
appending "hdc=ide-scsi" to the boot command line (assuming the drive is
the master on the second controller).  Then I have:

ide-scsi
sg
sr_mod

in /etc/modules.

You may also want to change the symbolic link /dev/cdrom so it points to
/dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdc.  Then you'll still be able to use it for
reading CDs as before.

HTH
John

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