fc3 can't burn cd yet

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 23 May 2005 01:18:47 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote:

> The burner is an atapi compatible burner and in earlier kernel 
> incarnations needed the hdd=ide-scsi parameter on the grub.conf kernel 
> line or as an append parameter in lilo.

This is not needed since FC3 and ought not be added.

> I'll get some system output for 
> the next message I send on this subject.  I can tell you now that the 
> drive without hdd=ide-scsi line in grub.conf requires dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 on 
> the cdrecord command line with -scanbus if it's recognized at all. 

You should be able to use -dev=/dev/hdd and -dev=/dev/cdwriter (with
the last one being a link to /dev/hdd).

> Unfortunately attempting a burn with atapi mode in effect just produces 
> error piles and coasters.

Note that there is "cdrecord -dummy" option to run tests without actually
writing CDs.

>  Changing speed has no effect on error reduction 
> either. When this was working with earlier kernel versions I had modprobe 
> ide_scsi; modprobe sg; modprobe sr_mod; in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and was able 
> to talk to the cd burner with /dev/sr1.

This sounds wrong also for earlier kernels. Only really older versions
of Linux [much older than Red Hat Linux 9] used this.

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