I added a CD/RW drive to my Linux system and linux keeps detecting it as scsi instead of ide. Nothing I try seems to work.
Yes I double checked that it is and IDE drive and not actually a scsi=0) Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I added a CD/RW drive to my Linux system and linux keeps detecting it as scsi instead of ide. Nothing I try seems to work.
Yes I double checked that it is and IDE drive and not actually a scsi=0) Does anyone have any suggestions?
Does your BIOS treat it as an IDE-drive?
I've had a similar problem with Suse 8.1 where YaST treated my hdd as a RAID-setup. Disabling the motherboard's RAID-controller got rid of the problem.
If that doesn't work, you should supply some more info: what version of Linux to begin with...
I think you will find under linux your cd writer needs to utilise scsi emulation to enable it to write to cd media ... I am sure someone more knowledgable will be able to expand on this.
This site may help sort you out: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~gregorr...cdr_howto.html
For what it is worth my Mandrake system identifies my ide cd burner as scsi and it works a treat.
I'm pretty sure all burners are identified as SCSI under linux. I have read the reason for it before, but can't remember why it's that way.
That's true what Thread_killer said, you need SCSI-emulation even using IDE-drive.
Here's a Linuxgazette's tutorial 'Easy Addition of an IDE CD-Writer to a Linux/RedHat' (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/feenberg.html)
yup..
if you use lilo, add the line hdc=ide-scsi to it..
and make sure you have SCSI emulation support in your kernel..
Then the cdrom drive should be /dev/scd0 make sure you edit the cdrom drive info in /etc/fstab
It's because cdrecord can only handle SCSI burners. That's why you should use SCSI emulation for your IDE burner.Quote:
Originally posted here by thread_killer
I'm pretty sure all burners are identified as SCSI under linux. I have read the reason for it before, but can't remember why it's that way.
Thanks for all that info guys....that will help me alot in fixing the problem.