[Gllug] ide-scsi and cdrecord

Wed Nov 26 22:09:40 UTC 2003

On Wed 26 Nov, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> 
> Morning
> 
> I have problems blanking CDRs with cdrecord. Although I have scsi emulation and scsi c
> d-rom support in the kernel as modules, I can't get cdrecord to work without using the
>  ATAPI layer, and thought perhaps this was the problem, given that cdrecord warns me t
> he ATAPI code is pre-alpha.
> 
> "ide-scsi=hdc" is one of the kernel parameters - I thought it turned scsi emulation on
> ?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Tom SW
> 
   It is important to run the scsi emulation ide-scsi before any atapi
emulation, so it should be run by lilo during the boot sequence. My
/etc/lilo.conf has a line

append="hdd=ide-scsi"

   You then need to re-run lilo

-- 
Chris Bell


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