From: "Willem van der Walt<vdwaltw@health.gov.za>" <vdwaltw@health.gov.za>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: cdrecord and Sony IDE Drives
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:08:02 +0200 (SAST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210210905210.20429-100000@rh.health.gov.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210210154.g9L1s7G80612@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Hi,
when starting cdrecord, do you specify dev=x,x,x giving the scsi
parameters
for the sony or do you use a device?
If cdrecord is using some default it can maybe do something like what you
are getting.
Just an idea,
regards, Willem
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, 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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Willem van der Walt
Information Services Directorate
Department of Health
South Africa
tel: 27 12 3120700
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