Atapi CD-RW problem (ide-scsi)
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sun Aug 29 16:36:40 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 16:16, Kristian André Gallis wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I run Fedora 2 on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A7620 laptop, and have
> suddenly got myself into trouble that I cannot find a solution to on the
> web.
>
> I was going to burn my first CD with cdrecord on Fedora 2. But that
> didn't work. I had a problem when I used Fedora 1 aswell, but then I
> just followed a how-to in the Red Hat Linux Fedora bible to configure
> the IDE CD-ROM for recording.
>
> Then I got into trouble, because this how-to is for kernel 2.4 and I
> have 2.6.8. I didn't think of this and just tried to follow it step by
> step. The result was that cdrecord does still not work, and now _I'm not
> able to read CDs anymore!_
>
> The things I have done (run) is:
>
> [root at localhost /]# modprobe -a ide-scsi
You don't need ide-scsi to burn CDs on 2.6 kernels.
> [root at localhost dev]# rm cdrom
> [root at localhost dev]# ln -s scd0 cdrom
>
> How can I revert to the original configuration? So I at least am able to
> read CDs?
rm /dev/cdrom
ln -s hdc /dev/cdrom
> Information:
> [root at localhost /]# dmesg | grep ^hd
> hda: FUJITSU MHS2040AT, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
> hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Also bear in mind that you'll need to be root to burn CDs with a 2.6.8
kernel.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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