[Wolves] Morphix/Debian and CD drives

[Matthew Revell]

David Goodwin wrote:

> 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"

Yeah, I had a look in the lilo.conf but there was no mention of hdc or 
hdd, or anything that appeared to be my CD drives.>

> 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)

Oh, cool.



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