From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: CD-RW-Drive Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:04:21 -0500 Message-ID: <41D29D45.1040607@gelm.net> References: <20041229070643.E79E71737F@heisspf> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041229070643.E79E71737F@heisspf> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Peter H." Cc: linux 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs