X-CD-Roast Problems

ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 2:52 am Post subject: X-CD-Roast Problems

I'm trying to burn a CD. I open X-CD-Roast. It tells me it can't find any CD burners in my system. I have 3 CD-ROM drives. 1 DVD, 1 40x CD-RW, and one normal CD-ROM. It has worked before, but I just reinstalled Gentoo (went back to Win2k for a short time, and now I'm back).

What did I do wrong? SCSI-Emulation, SCSI-CDROM Support, and SCSI-Generic are all enabled in the kernel.

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timbo · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 3:12 am Post subject:

After reinstalling did you log in as root and set xcdroast up? Then back in as a user?

I've a differnt problem with xcdroast being that I have never been able to copy audio discs, it never displays the time or number of titles correctly. Did read that this is a known problem but have not found a fix yet.

Regards
Tim

ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 4:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah I've done the whole root user thing. It always says it can't find any CD-R devices.

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seang · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 4:57 pm Post subject:

Try
cdrecord -scanbus
and see what it turns up... Probably no scsi devices?

Correctly passing scsi devices to kernel at boot time via grub? Does dmesg show them?

ee99ee2 · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 5:02 pm Post subject:

ee99ee2 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 6:31 am Post subject:

Any ideas? I've gotta burn something... now... and this is the only system with a burner
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seang · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 7:07 am Post subject:

I'm at work (and my CD-box is at home) but I'm sure we can work this out... :-)

That Adaptec device in the -scanbus output - is that the CD-RW or some other SCSI device?

seang · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 7:54 am Post subject:

Whether or not the Adaptec device is the CD-RW, when you start xcdroast and go to setup, do you see the same device on the Device-Scan tab? You should...

So, it's two questions:

1) What's the Adaptec and
2) What shows on Device-Scan in xcdroast?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Not sure how it would work with LILO, but in Grub, an option similar to hdb=ide-scsi needs to be passed. As in kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4 hdb=ide-scsi. Perhaps there is something similar with LILO.
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biroed · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 5:52 pm Post subject:

yep, append="hdx=ide-scsi"

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

According to the scanbus output, the Adaptec it is detecting seems to be a scsi card, and not a disk of any type, unless it's just not pulling info right.

I pulled up information on the Adaptec ACB-5500, and it's a SCSI to ESDI 5 1/4" Winchester disk controller. (straight from the Adaptec website)
when you add the entry into lilo, you shouldn't put hdx.. you should put hd(letter coresponding to where the drive is on the line). Like, mine for example. I have an EIDE cdrw (acer 8x4x32), and it's on the secondary IDE controller, master drive configuration. So, it's hdc.. and I put "hdc=ide-scsi" in my kernel parameters. Just thought I'd bring that up

You can use dmesg to figure out where your cdrom is. Do "dmesg | grep -i cd". Here's an example of what I get when I do that:

ee99ee2 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject:

wait wait wait! I don't have anything that's SCSI! This adaptec thing.... what is it? I don't have ANYTHING in my system that's SCSI! nothing!

ahhH!!!

oh and i tried the whole hda=ide-scsi thing..... when I run lilo it just gives me errors about where I added that.... wtf?

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seang · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 8:51 pm Post subject:

Right - 99% likely your CD-RW is an ide device.

Look in, say, /proc/ide or maybe just do a 'dmesg' and see which ide device it is attached to. Unlikely to be hda. If you've one hard disk and a CD-RW, then odds are the CD is hdb or hdc. Anyway, you need to find this. Personally I find dmesg a good source for this sort of stuff. e.g.

hda: WDC AC13200B, ATA DISK drive
hdb: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive
hde: ST340824A, ATA DISK drive
hdg: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive

There you can clearly see a CD-RW on hdb

It's that hd that you pass to the kernel via lilo or grub at boot-time (as per other messages here).

If this makes no sense, I suggest the following:

1) Post the output of dmesg here (maybe cut it down to the ide section, if you can!)

2) Post the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf (think it's that - I use grub these days!).

:-)

ee99ee2 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 9:12 pm Post subject:

Okay. Here's the way my HDs work:

hda - DVD-ROM
hdb - 24x CD-ROM
hdc - 40x12x40 CD-RW
hde - 1st 60GB HD
hdg - 2nd 60GB HD

Here's my /etc/lilo.conf:

seang · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:49 am Post subject:

Ah ha!!

OK, try this - assuming you are booting off the first of the two images mentions in your lilo conf, add

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

the the first lilo entry. So it becomes:

image = /boot/bzImage
root = /dev/hde2
label = Gentoo
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

and take that for a spin. Let us know how it goes!!

ee99ee2 · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:28 pm Post subject:

Well, that defintly did something, because I had to re-emerge my nvidia-kernel drivers..... just didn't fix anything. You know, this is getting really frustrating. Last time it worked without any problems. Last time, being when I was in Gentoo 1.3a.

Did I mention I needed to burn something 3 days ago? lol.

Thanks for all the help so far. What else could it be though?

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ee99ee2 · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 4:32 pm Post subject:

Ideas anyone?

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Have you looked at this possibility?
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ee99ee2 · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 4:18 am Post subject:

I had my hopes up, but I"m already using 1.11.34. What error messages are there to report?

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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

do the following:

dmesg | grep -i scsi
and also:
dmesg | grep -i sr
(they might have the same lines.. but just trying to cover everything)

and tell us the output. I'm guessing you have your scsi stuff modularized, so give us the output of "lsmod", also.

I'm not going to take for granted that you have hdc=ide-scsi in your /etc/lilo.conf, so can you show us the lilo.conf that you have right now?

That should give us the information we need to find out whats going on in the underbelly here.

ee99ee2 · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 5:46 am Post subject:

rac · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 5:48 am Post subject:

What says "ls -l /dev/sg0"?
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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

It almost looks like sr_mod (or the equiv in the kernel configuration: scsi cdrom) isn't selected. Do you have scsi cdrom selected under scsi devices?

We'll get this thing working, even if it kills us. It looks like the scsi subsystem is loaded, but the device isn't being seen. Usually comes from not having the right selections in the kernel, or not having the modules loaded if modularized. (you said it wasn't modularized though)

ee99ee2 · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 3:06 pm Post subject: