[ILUG] ide-scsi (cd-rw)

[Paul Askins]

Hi, 

I had a lot of trouble getting my ide cd writer working too.  If you've
re-compiled your kernel recently then you should take a look at this howto.
http://rdb.linux-help.org/idescsi.php3
I followed it and it solved my problems.  I just tried to open the page and I'm
getting connection refused.  Could be a problem with our internet proxy (as
it's quite crappy, MS Proxy server).  I did however save that page for
reference so I've included the main points below.  If you've already covered
this then I'm afraid I can't be of much more help except that I noticed you
used /dev/sg0.  You could try /dev/scd0 (which works for me) or /dev/sr0.
Can you mount a cd from /dev/sg0?

FAQ points:
Under BLOCK DEVICES go with your usual defaults, NOTE the following:

Disable CDROM support, enable SCSI emulation support.

Under SCSI Support:

Enable SCSI support, SCSI CDROM support, Enable vendor-specific extensions,
and SCSI generic support. You can modularize these as I have, or add them in
full (select y instead of m). Further down in the above menu is SCSI low-level
drivers --->. Go in here and disable any and all SCSI controller card support
(default unconfigured kernel has one of the NCR cards enabled, select n for it).
Make sure no other cards are enabled. Exit the kernel configuration, saving the
options. Compile and install kernel.
Reboot. 

Hope this helps,

Paul.

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Paul Askins <:)
Email:  Paul Askins <paul.askins at adbvdesign.analog.com>
Date:   26-Mar-01, 10:07:24

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