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SubjectRe: getting a working CD-drive in 2.6
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Wes Janzen wrote:

> Stuart Longland wrote:
>
> > iain d broadfoot wrote:
> >
> > | ide-scsi is disabled.
> >
> > If it's an IDE drive, you'll want this _enabled_ before you'll be able
> > to write CDs. Most of the burner software that I know of look for a
> > SCSI CD burner, not IDE. ide-scsi is intended for making an IDE CD
> > burner appear as a SCSI device.

> Actually with 2.6, you no longer need ide-scsi. You'll need to upgrade
> your cdrecord tools and probably your burning GUI, if you use one. I've
> been burning that way for several months now. (I'm using xcdroast,
> though I need to start it with "-n" since I'm using cdrecord 2.01a18.)
> This actually works better for me than ide-scsi as for some reason it
> uses less CPU.

Just add the dev parametre to the cdrecord command line and it will work:
$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc
$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -scanbus

You can put it in the various cd recording programs setups.

Pau

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