yum tutorial and setting up ATAPI laptop drive without SCSI emulation

[Lamar Owen]

On Monday 27 October 2003 10:59 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   second, i'm running FC3 (well, FC2 with absolutely everything updated
> to FC3) on my inspiron 8100, and i'd like to set it up to access the
> ATAPI CD-RW drive (/dev/hdb) without the historical SCSI emulation.

>   # cdrecord dev=/dev/hdb ...

What does a 'cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus' yield for the CD-ROM device number?  
Suppose it yields device 0,0,0.  You then burn to it with 'cdrecord 
dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 .......'

This does NOT work if ide-scsi emulation is loaded.
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