cdrdao (WAS Re: [CLUE-Tech] ISO images from Audio CD's?)

[Randy Arabie]

On Sunday,  8 December 2002 at 19:10:02 -0700, Timothy C. Klein <teece at silverklein.net> wrote:
> don't think you will be able to use the device with the cd burning
> utilities unless you make the generic scsi driver control it.  I thought
> it controlled all drives by default, but maybe not.  Try rebooting,
> passing a parameter to the kernel of:
> 
> hdb=ide-scsi
> 
> You could do it through lilo, or just type at the boot prompt
> 
> LILO:  linux hdb=ide-scsi
> 
> I think I have that right above.  Replace linux with whatever the name
> of your boot image is.
> 
> I find this to be an annoying feature of all of the CD burning software
> - it all relies on generic SCSI.  If you don't want a drive to be a
> generic SCSI, (like, say, my DVD drive, which has its performance
> destroyed by the software only sg driver), you can't use that drive as a
> read device.  I can see why they do it, but it is still a pain.

Thanks.  That got me further.  Now I've got to figure out which 
cdrdao driver will work with my CD-ROM, it's an off brand and not
in the cdrdao tables :(
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/
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