[Wolves] Morphix/Debian and CD drives

[David Goodwin]

Matthew Revell wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> After a brief, and misguided, dalliance with Fedora over the weekend, I 
> reinstalled Morphix Gnome, then did a dist-upgrade to Sid, yesterday.
> 
> It doesn't seem to have recognised my IDE CD drives, this time round, 
> tho'. I have a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM drive, both of which seemed to work 
> fine when I installed Morphix KDE, previously.
> 
> My first question is to do with the dev name that these drives are 
> assigned. At the moment, I can't find out what Debian is calling them. 
> So, what's the difference between /dev/hdc and /dev/cdrom?
> 
> I've added a couple of lines to the fstab, which reference /dev/hdc and 
> /dev/hdd as iso9660 noauto, ro, users 0 0 (I *think*, don't have details 
> here).
> 
> Any thoughts peeps?
> 

Perhaps they are being detected as ide-scsi drives to make cd burning 
etc easier. If this is the case they'll probably be either /dev/scdN or 
/dev/sdX (I think).

To check this look in either /etc/lilo.conf (is there an
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

line? or does /etc/grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst) contain a similar 
configuration (probably mentioning ide-scsi).


Interesting I discovered that there is no longer any need to use the 
ide-scsi stuff for cdburning now - as cdrecord can be used with the 
"dev=ATAPI:0,0,0" type options, which lets it work properly, and appear 
as a normal ide drive (e.g. /dev/hdc)

(That's with debian unstable, updated yesterday)

thanks,
David.