k3b copy problems

[Jeff Vian]

Mihai Maties wrote:

>On Tuesday 02 March 2004 18:48, Andrew Robinson wrote:
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>>Having seen the virtues of k3b extolled in the forum, I decided to give
>>it a try. It works fine for creating a cd from scratch. However, when I
>>try to copy a cd, I get errors that seem to be related to this message:
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>>   No support for ATAPI with cdrdao
>>   You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy
>>   sources   since there is at least one not configured to use
>>   SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with
>>   cdrdao.
>>   Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable
>>   ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all devices. This way you won't
>>   have any problems.
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>K3b is able to copy CDs via cdrdao or readcd/cdrecord. cdrdao does not support 
>ATAPI devices natively so you must enable scsi emulation on your device to 
>use it. 
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>Since you are not using scsi-emulation K3b warns you about not being able to 
>use cdrdao at all, but it shouldn't be any problem because you can still copy 
>CDs via readcd/cdrecord.
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>>Using Google, I never found a definitive answer to this. The best
>>suggestion seemed to be to include a directive in the grub.conf. When I
>>looked, I seemed to already have this directive:
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>>   title Fedora Core (2.4.22-awr1)
>>     root (hd0,9)
>>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-awr1 ro root=LABEL=/12
>>     hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
>>     initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-awr1.img
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>You must have the "hdc=ide-scsi" part on the same line with "kernel...".
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Also, if you are copying from cd to cdrw you need both hdc and hdd as 
ide-scsi.
This is done by adding the "hdd=ide-scsi" to the kernel line above

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>>Which seems to matche what I see in dmesg:
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>>   hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
>>   hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
>>   hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
>>   hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
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>>I'm now lost. Could someone help me out with the correct configuration?
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>You could enable scsi-emulation on your device if for some reason copying cds 
>with cdrecord does not work.
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>Mihai
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