xcdroast and HP writer
Wolfgang Gill
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Fri Dec 5 03:13:42 UTC 2003
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:52:49 -0500, Glenn wrote
> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:17:23 -0500, Glenn wrote
> >
> >>I have an HP 9500 CD writer that working fine in RH 7, 8 and 9 but
> >>Fedora only recognizes it as a reader. The scanbus identifies the
> >>writer correctly and the config file shows the correct device, etc.
> >>
> >>cdrecord does not exhibit any of this issue. I have used xcdroast
> >>-d10 and the result indicates that xcdroast to detect the HP writer
> >>and thus defaults to assuming it is a reader ONLY.
> >>
> >>Anybody had a similiar experience?
> >>
> >>--
> >>Glenn Simpson VE3DSP
> >>Hamilton, Ont
> >>email: gsimpson at mountaincable.net
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I'm not sure if this will help you. But do you have the 'hdc=ide-scsi' on your
> > kernel loading command line. From what I understand, is that Xcdroast and
> > other CD buring software no longer require this, as they are able to access
> > the drive directly via IDE, but I have configured my system this way (Fedora
> > did not set this up by default, where RH9 did). So maybe this is why Xcdroast
> > doesn't see you CD-ROM drive as a burner.
> >
> > Wolf
> >
> Thanks Wolf for the comment.
>
> I did remove the scsi option in the grub boot config and tried the
> action again. I caused setup to scan the device again. This time
> config showed I was using an ATAPI device and it recognized the HP
> drive as a reader/writer :-)
>
> I saved that config.
> xcdroast warned that an ATAPI device would be very slow and that I
> should consider using a SCSI config.
>
> I then restored the option in the boot config and rebooted the host.
>
> When the system was up, I again went to xcdroast setup, and
> rescanned the device. This time is simply indicated a device at 0,0,
> 0 (correct values. I check the CD drive and everything was still in
> reader/writer mode. Again I saved the xcdroast config. Did a
> couple checks with a CD and all seems 100%.
>
> Not sure what got cleared up, but it is working now.
>
> Thanks Wolf.
>
> Glenn
> --
> Glenn Simpson VE3DSP
> Hamilton, Ont
> email: gsimpson at mountaincable.net
No Problems, :-), great to see it's working again. I read about the Burning
software starting to use IDE ports. But I left mine this way as I didn't want
to risk not being able to backup my data. I use a DVD-R/CD-R burner for data
backup.
Wolf
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