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 > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list