[Sussex] CD Cooking - hot subject

[John D.]

Geoff will be able to explain properly Angelo, but as I understand it, it's so 
your system can actually do the burning stuff - my mandrake install 
automatically see's my cdrw as a burner so included the scsi emulation part 
in the system, debian didn't when I set it up and had to include it in the 
lilo append line, as per what Geoff said.

Then instead of seeing the burner as say /dev/hdx (or hdc as was the case with 
me) it then see's it as /dev/scd0 (though when I was working this out for the 
debian install, I found that there a couple of variations caused by which 
scsi emulation module? (I think that's what it's called anyway) i.e. my 
system has always seen the burner as /dev/scd0, but it could have been 
/dev/sd0

And the only burning thing (?) that i've used under linux was k3b in KDE and 
that was quite easy to use (even for a nugget like me).

regards

John D.

On Friday 12 Dec 2003 4:06 pm, Angelo Servini wrote:
> Ta Geoff
>
> I'll have a go tonight.  Dont understand the bit about append in LILO
> though.  Could you explain please?
>
> >-----Original Message-----
>
> From: Geoff Teale [mailto:gteale at cmedltd.com]
>
> >Sent: Friday, 12 December 2003 09:46
> >To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> >Subject: Re: [Sussex] CD Cooking
> >
> >
> >Angelo,
> >
> >CDBakeOven always worked for me under KDE.  Gnome has a nautilus CD
> >burning plug-in.
> >
> >So..
> >
> >emerge app-cdr/cdbakeoven
> >
> >or
> >
> >emerge gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner
> >
> >However, you will need to make sure that if you have an IDE CD Burner
> >that you have the kernel module ide-scsi loaded (this can also be built
> >into the kernel - but this is not advised).
> >
> >Assuming your kernel has this modules available (Red Hat _DOES_ and
> >Gentoo probably will do if you used genkernel) then wherever you add
> >your kernel parameters (an append="" line in LILO or tagged on the end
> >of the kernel= line in grub) will have to contain:
> >
> >ide-scsi=hdx
> >
> >..where hdx is the device name of your cd writer (commonly
> >this is hdd).