[lug] Getting a TDK veloCD recognized to use as a CD-RW

[Timothy C. Klein]

This gave me fits when I first did it, too.  I think the easiest way is
to compile the kernel *without* support for IDE-CDROMs.  You can then
compile generic scsi support as a module, or right into the kernel, just
make sure you load the module if it is modular.  If you don't want recomipile
your kernel, try passing the parameter:

hdc=ide-scsi

to the kernel when you boot it.  If that works, you can add it with and
append line to your lilo.conf.

The ide driver in the kernel sees the cdrom, and knows how to drive it,
so it tries.  If your machine boots off IDE, that driver is
necessarily up first, so it grabs the cdrom.  Thus the kernel has to be
told to leave the cdrom alone, so that the generic scsi driver can
control it.

HTH,

Tim

* BOF (bof at pcisys.net) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I bought a TDK velcoCD CD-RW and have installed it. It is installed as 
> the master device on the IDE bus number 1 (the second bus), is 
> recognized as /dev/hdc and can be used to read CD's. Now I want to get 
> it to write CD's, and am having trouble doing so. The instructions in 
> the various HOW-TO's are not always up to date, and not very clear.
> 
> I've tried the instructions in the CD-Writing HOWTO 
> (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1) but my 
> computer seems to override the loading of the ide-scsi module and 
> continues to recognize it as /dev/hdc when the system boots.
> 
> I've also tried compiling the SCSI drivers into the kernel but this does 
> not work either.
> 
> Could anyone provide help on what exactly what I need to do to get this 
> up and running? I would prefer to use modules, but am willing to do a 
> kernel compile if necessary.
> 
> Thanx.
> 
> BOF
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