ide cdrw

[H. M. Murdock]

Ok,

I got my ide cdrw working with scsi emulation. Now what I would like to do is add my dvd/cd drive to the scsi emulation. right now, xcdroast wont look at my ide dvd/cd, so I figured if i add it to the scsi emulation, the problem will be solved. I did the same exact steps to add my dvd/cd except i changed the hdd to hdc, and made it scd1 instead of scd0. Now it just recognizes just the dvd/cd and doesnt see the cdrw. Is it possible to have 2 ide devices scsi emulated? If so how do I go about doing this?

Murdock

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[osnap]

Yes, you can have two ide devices scsi emulated. I have both my CDROM and CDRW working using SCSI emulation. I used these instructions:

Using ATAPI CDR(W) Devices
ATAPI CDR(W)s are special. The Linux kernel needs to be
compiled specially for them to work properly.

Basically, you must TURN OFF IDE CDROM support and
instead use both "SCSI emulation" and "SCSI generic
support".

If you have never compiled a kernel before, you are wise
to read the Kernel Howto.

I tend to use "make menuconfig" to configure the kernel,
and these are the things I did:

Under "Block devices", I set "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM
support" to "n" and I set "SCSI emulation support" to
"Y".

Under "SCSI support", I make sure there is "SCSI CD-ROM
support" and "SCSI generic support" turned on. Since I
have no true SCSI cards, I need nothing from the "SCSI
low-level drivers" section.

I built and installed this kernel. As a result, my
CD-ROM detected as a scsi device (/dev/scd0 in my case)
during bootup and I have been able to burn to /dev/sg0
as is the default in CDR-Toaster.

For more information on the special needs of your
CDR(W), see the documentation for "cdrecord" which is
the burn program that CDR-Toaster calls out to.

But I'm not too sure it will work with DVD.

[H. M. Murdock]

that worked great thatnks a bunch

Murdock

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In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.