CDRW/DVD issue

[squiffles]

Should the CDRW be the only device that should be included in: append="hdX=ide-scsi"? My DVD driver(16x toshiba)is also selected for use here and is showing up as a scsi device to 'cdrecord -scanbus' and to xcdroast but I am unable to mount disks on this drive and my Knoppix hard disk install of Debian didn't include it in the /etc/fstab. I'm looking for the easiest way to get my DVD drive working in Debian now that everything else is configured. My system right now has hda and hdb as hard disks, hdc is my cdrw and hdd is my DVD, I have been searching the forums and haven't found much in the way of how it should be configured. Finally, when I went through and recompiled my kernel I was sure to include scsi emulation support and support for regular ide devices. If anyone has any suggestions or pointers as to where I should look I would greatly appreciate it.

[redcape]

Using SCSI emulation for a read-only drive sometimes gives better performance when ripping music. Also xcdroast would only rip from SCSI drives, although this might have been fixed in newer versions.

[Pariah]

So my DVD drive should operate just fine with the scsi emulation, now what do you recommend as far as setting up a mount points correctly? My cdrw is mounted /devhdc -> /dev/cdrom -> /cdrom. Where does debian usually locate dvd drives? I recently converted from redhat/mandrake and am noticing little quirks like this that make debian so special.
additional: for some weird reason I had to use a different login at work, it won't allow me to post with squiffles here.*shrugs*

[Pariah]

I looked a little closer after writing my last reply and removed the link /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom and pointed it to /dev/sr1 since it's loaded as a scsi device and it works great. ssh'ing into the home computer to dink around rocks!