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markbowen
12-01-2002, 03:47 PM
Hi
I have been having alot of trouble trying to configure my friends Pc today and it was much easier on mine.

The problem is:- I have copied from a previous thread how to configure my cdrom and cdrw drives to work on the cd burning software on mandrake 9.0. So i have changed my settings in the Grub-1st file and another,I cannot remember which, but they now read something like this :-
append=" /other stuff/ hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi".

My friend has got it the other way round as it was hdc=ide-scsi, as his master drive is the cdrecorder,when I change it to "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" it does not work.

Please can someone help me out please

Mark
Choozo
12-01-2002, 03:59 PM
How many CD devices (reader and burner) does he have installed, and how are they hooked up?

hda - Primary Master
hdb - Primary Slave
hdc - Secondary Master
hdd - Secondary Slave

There should be no reason to emulate SCSI on a plain CD reader.
markbowen
12-01-2002, 04:09 PM
Hi

Cheers for the quick reply.

He has a cdrw as Master which is on scsi and a cd-dvd as primary ide-cd.

Thanks

Mark
Choozo
12-01-2002, 04:14 PM
Originally posted by markbowen
He has a cdrw as Master which is on scsi and a cd-dvd as primary ide-cd.
That doesn't say much ..... Which Master (primary or secondary), and Primary what (slave or master)?
markbowen
12-01-2002, 04:18 PM
Hi

Sorry about that

His cd-rw is coming up as Device - "scd0" and in the grub file it is listed as hdc=ide-cd and I am not quite sure what his cd-dvd is, it might be hdd - Secondary Slave

If that helps?

Mark
Choozo
12-01-2002, 04:31 PM
Okay, if the CDRW is a 'genuine SCSI' device, there should be no need to emulate SCSI by appending hdx=ide-scsi.
Just remove all of the 'scsi emulating' from boot.lst (no need to emulate scsi for CDRs anyway).

During installation you should have been asked if you have any SCSI devices, and answered YES to that one.
markbowen
12-01-2002, 04:36 PM
Hi

Thanks Choozo you are a legend mate, I will try this out tomorrow and will let you know the outcome probably tomorrow night.

Thanks for all the help and take care Linux genius

Mark
carlywarly
12-02-2002, 04:12 AM
There is actually a very good reason to emulate scsi with a cdrom drive - speed. Ripping audio without scsi emulation is much slower than with - data throughput is better, too.
Choozo
12-02-2002, 09:45 AM
Thx carlywarly, I just learned something useful now :D