Mandrake 9 and Memorex DVD

[watchitman]

I've almost given up on the Linux community because just about everywhere I've been, Linux users are snide, condescending, mean-spirited and rude. I hope this place is the exception. Now on to my question - how do I get my Memorex DVD+RW/+R drive to work? Mandrake thinks it's a regular CD-R (and I've not had any luck getting that to work) so I can watch DVD movies and burn DVD's and CD-R's.

[mdwatts]

I'm not sure about burning DVD's though I should be able to help with setting up scsi emulation for cdrw's.

Check your bootloader config

Lilo - /etc/lilo.conf
Grub - /boot/grub/menu.lst or grub.conf

to ensure you have a entry such as hd#=ide-scsi where hd# is the device. Likely either hdc or hdd.

See if the required scsi emulation modules are loaded

lsmod (list loaded modules)

and look for scsi_mod, sr_mod and ide-scsi.

Be right back with the link for the Help File.

http://justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Adding_an_IDE_CD-Writer_to_Linux.html

Try searching the forums for 'scsi emulation' and you will find plenty of previous threads that will give you additional suggestions.

Google for Linux ( www.google.com/linux ) might help for finding info on Linux and DVD recording.