xcdroast sees my DVD/CDRW drive as DVD/CDROM only when ide-scsi is in effect

[Russell East]

I found the following link that gave me the right clue:
    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/159965

Basically the answer was to download cdrecord and xcdroast from their 
respective web sites, and re-compile them locally.

At least they now recognize my dvd/cdrw as a cd writer.

-- Russell


Russell East wrote:

> My Compaq Evo N800c laptop has a Toshiba SD-R2102 DVD/CDRW drive.
>
> After installing Fedora Core 1 (with recent updates)  xcdroast detects 
> the drive as a reader only.
> In the grub.conf, there is an "hdc=ide-scsi" option, and /dev/cdrom 
> points to /dev/scd0.
>
> If I remove the above option from grub.conf, then reboot, /dev/cdrom 
> points to /dev/hdc again,
> and, xcdroast detects the device as a writer.   But it also notes that 
> it is an atapi device and
> recommends against using it.
>
> I also use "acpi=on" within grub.conf, since this is necessary for the 
> Evo, it has only ACPI and no APM.
> Dunno if that makes a difference?
>
> Anyone have some clues why this might be happening?
>
> `uname -a` displays this:
>    Linux gumnut 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> -- Russell
>