[Nottingham] getting a dvd writer to work in debian

[Simon Amor]

Hi,
  Trying to get a dvd writer working with linux, but everytime I
modprobe ide-scsi, it dies horribly and the entire machine panics.

hdd: MATSHITADVD-RAM SW-9571, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

I've tried with and without adding hdd=ide-scsi to the boot params

# modprobe ide-scsi
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x12 00 00 00 ff 00

followed by something about device sending 352 bytes when only
expecting 256, and then a wonderful oops with something about 
"kernel BUG in iops.c". At that point, the caps lock and scroll lock
leds on the (ps/2) keyboard start blinking and the machine has to be
reset.

I've tried just the dvd-ram on the ide interface as well as dvd-rom +
dvd-ram but same thing happens.

I don't want to go to kernel 2.6 because not a lot worked last time I
tried it out on this machine. Currently running 2.4.21 instead.

Any suggestions as to cause/solution/ways to track down the problem?

  Simon
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