[CLUE-Tech] CD-writer software

[Shapiro, Gary L]

Thanks, Craig. I have the software working now. However, when I try to change the settings of some of the setup options, I
get a message:

Error: can't read "TkPriv(activeMenu)": no such element in array

Have you ever encountered this error message? What does it mean? 

Also, I can't seem to write to a CD-RW disk that has already been written to. Is this a normal shortcoming of the software,
or is there something wrong with my configuration?

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Magtutu [mailto:magtutu at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 7:20 PM
To: Shapiro, Gary L
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] CD-writer software


  - can't post to the list from this location, so here's a privmsg. repost if
you like...

   gary,
 
> I just installed an HP IDE CD Writer (HP #A5989A) on our new HP PL-class
> Linux workstation. Unfortunately, the CD Writer
> only came with software for NT. Although I do eventually intend to install NT

   right. the linux cd-writing utilities i'm familiar with (cdrecord, xcdroast,
etc) can automagically deal with writers detected on the scsi bus. however, ide
ones require a scsi emulation module to be loaded into the kernel. for my
ide-based RH 7.0 system, the "ide-scsi" module was already compiled and sitting
under the /lib/modules dir tree. do some google searches for "ide-scsi" and
you'll probably turn up more than you'd ever want.
   a reboot was required, but basically i added the "append" section to my
lilo.conf file:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
	append="hdc=ide-scsi"        <--- inserted this line
	label=linux
	read-only
	root=/dev/hda5

(don't forget to run /sbin/lilo)

modified my fstab:

#/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
# A side effect of using scsi emulation is the need for this line...
/dev/scd0               /mnt/cdrom              auto   
defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0

then added this line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

# SCSI emulate the cd-writer
/sbin/insmod ide-scsi

now reboot.

> tell how to configure the kernel to use SCSI 
> emulation, but they are not clear, and I would rather not fool with the
> kernel except as a last resort.

   me neither (read: i'm a wuss). especially on a system i'm happy with.

   i mount my cdrom using /dev/scd0 rather than /dev/cdrom when i'm using it
for anything. i suppose you could ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom, but i'm not sure.

   hope this helps.
 
   craig


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Don't hate the media, become the media
    - Jello Biafra, HOPE 2000

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