[ILUG] ide cd writer

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, kevin lyda wrote:

> wondering if anyone here has a good description of how to get an ide cd
> writer going.  one point i noticed in the docs was that ide cdwriters
> should be on a different ide bus then the drive they're being burned from.
> in general any disk activity is bad on that bus.  so if my disks are
> on ide0, i should put the cd writer (an hp 9100 btw) on ide1, right?
> and i can't seem to get cdrecord to notice the damn thing.

hi,

you seem to be new to linux, so i'd suggest you start off by reading
some HOWTO's at linuxdoc.org/HOWTO, eg the SCSI howto, and more
specifically the section on ATAPI CDROMs:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/sr.html#SRATAPI

cdrecord only supports SCSI devices (same for cdrdao and cdparanoia
iirc). so to get your CDRW working you'll have to load a module to
allow applications to access that drive as if it was a SCSI device.
when you have that setup

cdrecord -scanbus

will tell you what cdrecord thinks.

> thanks for any tips...

you're welcome.. don't forget to read those HOWTO's!

>
> kevin

--paulj

imagine that, 2 kevin lydas on the same list... ha.