Re: CD-RW-Drive

chuck gelm
2004-12-29T12:04:21Z

Peter H. wrote:
> Season Greetings,
>
> Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26
>
> I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the right
> choice for Linux. I was able to make it work following the instruction of the
> program xcdroast, however, some things seem strange.
>
> I always get error messages telling not to use atapi instead scsi.

Are you using 'SCSI emulation' instead of ATAPI?

> I had a CD with picture files on. When I copied them to the HD I can't open
> them and copying back to the CD I can't open them as well any longer. In fact
> I can not mount the CD anymore. Only xcdroast can.
> $ mount /mnt/cdrom
> mount: Not a directory
>
> Trying too boot Knoppix 3.4 from the CD I get only a blank screen. Booting
> from CD and then switching to HD, Knoppix works alright.
>
> It seems that xcdroast can only write .wav and .iso files?????
>
> Questions:
>
> Is there a better CD-RW-Drive for Linux than Asus? The shop is willing to
> exxchange.
>
> Are there better programs than xcdroast to R+W and which?
>
> Thanks & regards

Dear Peter H.:

During instalation of Slackware, it offers SCSI emulation and places
the statement in the first (executed) line of lilo.conf. Here is mine:
head -n 9 /etc/lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
boot = /dev/hdb2
message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 99

HTH, Chuck