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Martin McCormick wrote:

>	I upgraded to Linux3.0 this Summer and my ability to
>record CD's using SCSI emulation died on two different systems.
>On one system, I finally got it working with some help, but it
>does work again like it should.  It turns out that you must
>enable SCSI emulation in your kernel which is no big surprise.
>You also must enable CDROM support even though your CDRW drive is
>an IDE drive, and you must also enable generic SCSI support.
>
>	That fixed things for that system.
>
>	My work station at my job location seems very similar in
>that it is a Dell Dimension series system only slightly newer
>than the one I got back to good health again.  Its IDE drive is a
>Sony drive but is otherwise a normal IDE device.  After I did the
>same three things to that system, it showed all the correct test
>results one can look for.  If, for example, you type
>
>cat /proc/scsi/scsi, you will get a listing of all the SCSI
>devices you have.  I see the CDRW drive and it also shows up
>properly in a second test one can run that will make your system
>output a little form which describes your CDRW drive and its
>capabilities.
>
>	At this point, both systems behave the same way.
>
>	The trouble comes any time I want to use cdrecord on the
>system with the Sony drive.
>
>	Cdrecord starts out normally and then fails with an error
>saying that it can't find /dev/pg0.  /dev/pg0 is the first
>parallel port SCSI device.  I could certainly build a new kernel
>with parallel SCSI support, but is this really necessary?  The
>CDRW drive connects to an IDE controller, not the Printer port.
>
>	I am confused.  That system does appear to be otherwise
>quite functional.
>
>Martin McCormick
>
>
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