Atapi CD-RW problem (ide-scsi)

[Mike Burger]

The long and the short of it, for me, was as simple as adding this to the 
end of my kernel line in my grub.conf file.

hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi

That wound up creating the appropriate links between /dev/cdrom and the 
appropriate devices.

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Kristian André Gallis wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I run Fedora 2 on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A7620 laptop, and have 
> suddenly got myself into trouble that I cannot find a solution to on the 
> web.
> 
> I was going to burn my first CD with cdrecord on Fedora 2. But that 
> didn't work. I had a problem when I used Fedora 1 aswell, but then I 
> just followed a how-to in the Red Hat Linux Fedora bible to configure 
> the IDE CD-ROM for recording.
> 
> Then I got into trouble, because this how-to is for kernel 2.4 and I 
> have 2.6.8. I didn't think of this and just tried to follow it step by 
> step. The result was that cdrecord does still not work, and now _I'm not 
> able to read CDs anymore!_
> 
> The things I have done (run) is:
> 
> [root at localhost /]# modprobe -a ide-scsi
> [root at localhost dev]# rm cdrom
> [root at localhost dev]# ln -s scd0 cdrom
> 
> How can I revert to the original configuration? So I at least am able to 
> read CDs?
> 
> Information:
> [root at localhost /]# dmesg | grep ^hd
> hda: FUJITSU MHS2040AT, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
> hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
> 
> [root at localhost /]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 
> Jörg Schilling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to 
> <warly at mandrakesoft.com>.
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in 
> this version.
> scsidev: 'ATA'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version 
> (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c    1.80 
> 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
> scsibus1:
>          1,0,0   100) 'Slimtype' 'COMBO LSC-24081 ' '3MU4' Removable CD-ROM
>          1,1,0   101) *
>          1,2,0   102) *
>          1,3,0   103) *
>          1,4,0   104) *
>          1,5,0   105) *
>          1,6,0   106) *
>          1,7,0   107) *
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Kristian André
> 
> 
> 

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