Problem with IDE-CDRW drive

[Mike Martin]

 --- Pavel Rozenboim <pavelr at coresma.com> wrote: > 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday at mindspring.com]
> > Sent: Mon, July 28, 2003 1:11 PM
> > To: rhl-beta-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: Problem with IDE-CDRW drive
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
> > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Igor Gorbounov [mailto:igorbounov at voronezh.serw.ru]
> > > > Sent: Mon, July 28, 2003 12:57 PM
> > > > To: rhl-beta-list at redhat.com
> > > > Subject: Problem with IDE-CDRW drive
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Under RH-9.093 can't use anymore the IDE CD-RW drive.
> > > > Under RH-9 it worked fine. And now:
> > > > 
> > > > "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/cdrom,
> > > >         or too many mounted file systems
> > > >         (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
> > > >         ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)"
> > > > 
> > > > /dev/hdc is recognised during Linux startup.
> > > > "hdc=ide-scsi" exists in grub.conf.
> > > > So what became wrong?
> > > 
> > > Where link /dev/cdrom points to? It should point to something
> like
> > > /dev/scdX. Usually kudzu sets it up automatically.
> > 
> > based on a previous thread, is there any compelling reason to 
> > use SCSI emulation for an ATAPI CD-RW any more, given that
> > cdrecord can handle such devices directly?
> 
> >From what I understand, cdrecord code for handling ide devices is
> still
> alpha quality. Also many gui based cd writing software still
> expects scsi
> emulation or needs to be configured to use IDE devices. In fact,
> the only cd
> writing program that recognized IDE CDRW for me was X-CD-Roast -
> which
> somehow depends on dev=ATAPI option for cdrecord, which only works
> with 2.4
> kernels.
> 

dont you mean 2.5/2.6 kernels?

> > 
> > rday
> > 
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