removeable disks

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  If you are using a 2.6 kernel, you are discouraged from using
ide-scsi emulation.  2.6 kernels use the IDE cdrom driver for burning
CD's.  You will also need the latest cdrecord to get it working.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:27:51PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> You're gonna need to set up ide-scsi emulation if you want to burn 
> cd's. If you're using slackware add hdc=ide-scsi to the append= line 
> in /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. replace hdc with the name of your cd 
> writer.
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:47:46PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) 
> wrote:
> > Awesome!
> > I checked my fstab file and saw the cdrom entry.  It was listed as follows:
> > 
> > /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,owner,ro  0  0
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what all of that means, but I assumed that it was using
> > iso9660 by default.  So I did try specifying udf as the file system and it
> > worked!
> > When I mounted the cd, linux gave me a message about it being read only.
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to move files to my cd?  I'm using a HP
> > cd writer.
> > 
> > Thanks for the tips.
> > -- Rob
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: removeable disks
> > 
> > 
> > > What tools did you use to make this CD in the first place? By what
> > > you've said so far, it sounds like your cd is not an "ISO" CD but
> > > perhaps a UDF type.  In that case, you'll have to be sure that UDF
> > > file system support is available in your kernel and then mount the
> > > disk like so:
> > > mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> > > I havenot dealt personally with UDF CD's in any environment for a long
> > > time and have never done so in linux so I am guessing a bit here.
> > >
> > > HTH.
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