Re: CD-RW-Drive

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

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




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