Re: cdrecord and Sony IDE Drives

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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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