CD-RW problems

wonderpun2002 · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:07 am Post subject: CD-RW problems

Hi guys! I have just installed Gentoo for my first time and I have a little problem. When the system starts up I can see that my CD-RW drive is detected (/dev/hdd) but when I try to mount it the system says that there's no such device as /dev/hdd. The problem is that I have another normal cdrom as /dev/hdb and only it is being detected. So can anybody please help me and explain how can I make the system see /dev/hdd and mount it? Thanks very much in advance!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 12:33 pm Post subject:

wonderpun2002,

If you actually want to write to CD, you need to set up the writer as a fake SCSI device and tell the kernel not to add it to the IDE subsytem by adding /dev/hdd=ide-scsi on the kernel command line.

Your kernel needs to be built with ide-scsi, generic scsi support and scsi cdrom support. If you want to do CD to CD copies, configure both CDs as emulated scsi devices.

Writing to IDE CD-RWs as /dev/hdX is new and experimental, some CD write apps support it but most still expect to see a (fake) scsi interface.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon
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