Re: cdwriter

[Jim Cornette <redhat-jc insight rr com>]

Ted wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 12:17, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
> > Ted wrote:
> >
> > > I have both Fedora and Debian on my drive...Debian will burn cd's ok and 
> > > cdrecord -scanbus tells me the burner is 0,0,0 whereas Fedora tells me 1,0,0
> > > and in Fedora I get an error message...
> > > 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
> > >
> > > I notice I do not call for ide=scsi in the grub boot in fedora yet I do in the
> > > working Debian on the older kernel....
> >
> > The 2.6 kernel uses the ide-cd driver instead. Sometimes the CDROM needs 
> > this added to the grub.conf file.
> >
> >
> > > I have checked in /dev and the link is ok to hcd so anyone tell me
> > > where I am going wrong ??
> >
> > /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdwriter? (pointing to /dev/hdc)
> >
> > I'm on an FC1 nstallation right now. ls -la /dev/cd* gives me the below 
> > output. FC2 of course should be different.
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     9 Jan  2 17:07 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> > .....
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 May  3 06:52 /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/sg0
> >
> > Have you tried to burn using the nautilus CD burner feature? (right 
> > click on ISO file. Choose write to CD.)
> >
> > Jim
>
>
>
> [root box1 dev]# ls -la cd*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 Apr 29 20:59 cdrom -> /dev/hdc
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 Apr 29 20:59 cdrom1 -> /dev/hdd
> brw-rw----  1 root disk 15, 0 Feb 23 21:02 cdu31a
> brw-rw----  1 root disk 24, 0 Feb 23 21:02 cdu535
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 May  3 10:18 cdwriter -> /dev/hdc
> [root box1 dev]#
>
> This is what I get...so the cdwriter is seen however Nautilus
> says I have no cdwriter but the kde hardware gui se the cdwriter
> I have tried ide=scsi in Grubfor hdc but no joy....

My installation of Fedora Core 2 with two cd burners has this symlinked 
to the drives. I burned ISOs with hdc and it worked great. It appears 
that the symlinks are correct.

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 Mar 10 11:41 cdrom -> /dev/hdc
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 Mar 10 11:41 cdrom1 -> /dev/hdd
...
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 May  2 11:02 cdwriter -> /dev/hdc
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     8 May  2 11:02 cdwriter1 -> /dev/hdd

In my grub.conf file, I have made the entries in it listed below. The 
first entry is without the ide-cd entry. It is the entry that I burned 
my last CDs with.
The second entry is what I had to enter to get my cdwriters to work 
before. It has been awhile since I tried that entry. It used to work for 
me though. I'm sure that your entries will be a bit different for your 
setup.

I hope this helps get you able to burn CDs. If not, check bugzilla for 
cdrom burning problems.

Jim

title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.327)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro root=LABEL=/ selinux=0 acpi=on 3
        initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.327.img
title FTP Core (2.6.5-1.327)
        root (hd1,4)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-cd hdd=ide-cd 3
        initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.327.img