Re: dvd player / ide-scsi errors?

[Neil Bird <neil fnxweb com>]

Around about 29/05/2003 21:05, Daniel van Gerpen typed ...
> I'm having trouble accessing a DVD under RH9. ...
> # ls -g /dev/dvd /dev/scd1
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root            9 May 29 18:28 /dev/dvd -> /dev/scd1
> brwxrwxrwx    1 disk      11,   1 Jan 30 11:24 /dev/scd1
> Is this a know scenario? What can I do about it?

  When I first got my DVD-ROM drive to supplement my CD-R drive, I 
tried to make the DVD use ide-scsi as the CD-R was doing so that 
cdrecord (xcdroast in particular) could read from it.

  While ISTRT it worked (but it may not have done - I didn't leave it 
set up), I found I was completely incapable of playing DVDs on it. 
Guess there's a conflict between the 'SCSI' I/F and DVD I/F (above and 
beyond the normal CD IDE).


  Your best bet would seem to be to bin ide-scsi (may be in 
modules.conf, may be in the lilo/grub bootline);  see previous threads 
for details, but essentially cdrecord can now access ATAPI CD-R directly 
(and I've found xcdroast at least works 'out of the box' as well - 
although you're probably better d/l'ing the latest xcdroast *and* 
cdrecord RPMs from the xcdroast site).

  cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
  cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 ...
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  [can put default dev= in cdrecord conf. file;  /dev/hdx is supposed 
to work but doesn't seem to always for ATAPI]

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