Re: CD burning

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

On 19 May, Cloudmaster wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mark Blunier wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Cloudmaster wrote:
>> > do any of you know where I can find out how to use my darned IDE CD-burner
>> > with linux?  It appears that I need a SCSI ID and stuff, which my IDE
>> > devices aren't known to have...
>> 
>> Heres what I do with my atapi cdwriter
>> 
>> compile kernel, include ide-scsi emulation, scsi support
>> boot
>> insmode cdrom
>> 	sr_mod
>> 	ide-scsi
> 
> K.  I had to rmmod the ide-cdrom driver before this would work (like I was
> told to do), but it appears to wkr OK now.

FWIW, I have an IDE CD-ROM burner, IDE CD-ROM support, and emulation
going (and I can both burn and read CDs without playing funny kernel
tricks).  The trick: compile IDE, IDE-CD,, SCSI, SCSI generic, and SCSI
CD-ROM support into the kernel, and pass a "hdc=ide-scsi" kernel
parameter.

The advantage is that you can use the kernel in recovery mode and still
get to the CD via IDE if the SCSI emulation isn't configured right. 
This was crucial for me recently; I hosed my system up pretty badly,
and modules weren't loading, but I was still able to mount a CD and do
some upgrading until things worked.



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