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fatshady
08-02-2003, 11:56 AM
I have been trying to install my CDRW drive info Gentoo...

I was told to compile as modules the SCSI support, SCSI emulation, SCSI CDROM support and SCSI generic support.

After doing that i and recompiling the kernel, i emerged cdrtools, and tried

# cdrecord -scanbus

This shoudl have returned the info for my drive, as it shoudl be SCSI emulated, to work.

When is lsmod, both ide-cd and ide-scsi are in, and the ide-cd is above ide-scsi - as this article said it should.

When i run cdrecord -scanbus i get:

bash-2.05b# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.01a14 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

I am asl having probelms mounting the drives. This si the contents of my fstab:

GNU nano 1.2.1 File: /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.12 2003/03/11 02:50:53 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 / xfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9600 ro 0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

The DVD drive (cdrom0) works and plays DVD's through xine no probs, but i cannot get them mounted as i don;t really know how and all my stabs in the dark and searching haven't turned up much...

There are entries for them in the /dev. This is the last little annoyign thingo do - so far it was all gone well, and i am on the steepest linux learnming curve ever...

Having gone from 5 months on MDK to getting Gentoo working - I am beginning to understand more about linux and getting it working, instead of having GUI's doing everything for me.

Anway - i digress - can I have some help and suggestions plz...

Cheers

D

windsorjax
08-02-2003, 12:06 PM
I am still a neophyte so I could be wrong, I always have to set my cd in fstab to either "sr0" or 'scd0" just alter the "0" to whateverr # represents your device.

Hayl
08-02-2003, 12:08 PM
did you add hdX=ide-scsi to your boot loader (where X = c or d or whatever your burner is) ?

have you searched JustLinux yet? There are a ton of posts on how to set this up.