my experiences w/ xcdroast on fc2

[James Wilkinson]

charles f. zeitler wrote:
> it didn't work with my cdr
> as atapi, so i compiled my
> kernel (358) with scsi-emulation,
> scsi cdrom & generic scsi options
> set.

You would also need to set an option in grub for this to work.

> it still detected my drive as atapi,
> so (in case the rpm was at fault :} )
> i compiled xcdroast from tarball.
> 
> it requested that i perform scsi-emulation!
> (after the kernel compile!)

The Linux kernel crew prefer the ATAPI interface on kernel 2.6 (it
wasn't an option on 2.4 or previous kernels). The author of cdrecord
prefers his SCSI interface (he says it's more portable). Non-Fedora
specific sources will probably point you to SCSI emulation simply
because the source pre-dates the 2.6 kernel being common in Linux
distributions.

Fedora uses the ATAPI interface.

What happens if you run
cdrecord -inq dev=/dev/hdc
as root, where /dev/hdc is your CD-R/W?

If you do want to use the scsi emulation, add
hdc=ide-scsi
to the end of the appropriate kernel line in /etc/grub/grub.conf, where
hdc is your CD-R/W. For example,
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6 ro root=/dev/hda6 rhgb hdc=ide-scsi

James.

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