From: Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz@bdk.pl>
To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Cc: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: cdrecord and Sony IDE Drives
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:37:13 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210210933360.14020-100000@celebris.bdk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210210154.g9L1s7G80612@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:54:07 -0500
> From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
> Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: cdrecord and Sony IDE Drives
>
> 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
What exactly is your kernel version, cdrecord version, the command line
you used to start cdrecord (please use -v option) and messages displayed?
> parallel port SCSI device. I could certainly build a new kernel
Hmm, do you have an entry in /dev for pg0, pg1, and so on?
On my system there are entries for pg0 .. pg3 which are defined as
character devices with major number 97 and minor numbers 0 .. 3
> 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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