:o( New Sony CD-Burner hangs system

[bobtcowboy]

Hey all...

Just got a new Sony Spressa CD-RW for my birthday

Stats:
CD-RW
8xBurn, 4xRewrite, 32xRead
EIDE, Secondary Master (hdc)

Anyways, when I plugged it in this morning, I booted into windows and windows auto-detects it, asks me to install drivers and reboot... blah blah... in the end it works (but I haven't actually tried to burn yet though read works)

Now... I boot into LM7.2 and it recognizes it during kernel bootup and calls it
hdc: Sony CD-RW CRX140E

then it says "Universal CD drvier 3.11" (I believe that is what it says) and just sits there, hanging out

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get it to work... especially since it won't even let me boot with it in... I'm not much of a hardware person... but would windows let me use it if I had set it up (physically, in the box) wrong?

Bill

[jrbush82]

you may want to check and make sure that it is set to slave... that is, if you are sharing the ide cable that goes to it, which you likely are.

[bobtcowboy]

Originally posted by jrbush82:
you may want to check and make sure that it is set to slave... that is, if you are sharing the ide cable that goes to it, which you likely are.

Actually, its not slave... on the back the it is jumpered to "Master" which the manual says is the factory default. I put it on its own IDE cable, too.. I've got it plugged onto IDE1 and my hardrive (master) and other cdrom (slave) plugged into IDE0 on the other cable

hmm... does the "Master" jumper mean that it *isn't* master if it is jumpered? *checks manual* Nope. Putting the jumper on "Master" makes it the master. Which, if I set up my hardware right, it should be.

Would Windows let me use it still, if it was setup as you said?

Any other ideas? :(

Bill

[ 18 February 2001: Message edited by: bobtcowboy ]

[Strike]

I've got that drive - you need to enable SCSI emulation in order for it to work. Check the Hardware forum and search for SONY CRX140E and you should find my posts.

[bobtcowboy]

Thanks, Strike.

OK, I read your other posts, though I'm confused. :( Do I have to recompile my kernel to do this?



The Shrub said:
In your kernel under BLOCK DEVICES, make sure that your IDE-CDROM support is completely turned off. I know the HOWTO says to modulize it, but I had to turn mine off in order for the SCSI-Emulation to detect my drives.


Ok, the word 'modulize' seems to indicate to me that I will have to compile it...

Also, turning off IDE-CDROM support... does that mean that I'll lose my CD-ROM under linux? or will "SCSI Emulation" take care of it, as well?

I went to linuxdoc.org and I'm reading the CD-Writing HOWTO... I'm assuming that is the HOWTO mentioned in the other post?

Thanks for your help

Bill

[bobtcowboy]

OK,

So I don't need to recompile my kernel.... (*ahem*, duh me)

Figured that out... so I add the append line "hdc=ide-scsi" and now I've got both my burner and my cd-rom recognized by Linux in bootup... the only problem is that I can't actually *use* it...

I su to run cdrecord -scanbus and all I get is a message:

cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.

obviously, I'm root, so thats not the problem (though I tried actually logging in as root, as well, and that didn't work)

as I scan through /dev I find /dev/scd0 - scd7 are there, the owner is my user and the permissions are rw-rw---- and the group is cdwriter... for all 8 of them.

how do I get my writer to be usable now?

now my CD-ROM seems to not work, either.... I open up /mnt/cdrom and I get a "unable to open /mnt/cdrom" ... if I do it from the command line I get a message:

bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error

and its the same message as root or normal user

What do you think?

Thanks for all the help,
Bill

[ 18 February 2001: Message edited by: bobtcowboy ]