[ale] xcdroast [a romburner] <-- solution for RedHat5.2

[Courtney Thomas]

-----Original Message-----
 From: Vernard Martin <vernard at cc.gatech.edu>
To: Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at flash.net>
Cc: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] xcdroast [a romburner] <-- solution for RedHat5.2


>> My apologies for not revealing my solution for implementing xcdroast on
>> RedHat5.2.
>>
>> I had to turn on scsi emulation for ide in the kernel and recompile.
>
>So does this work for any IDE cd-writer or just the model that you have?
xcdroast has a list on their website of compatible IDE burners.
>I've been having a hard time with my Sony CDW 7502. Its a rebranded
Matshita
>drive and I can't get it to do anything reasonable under xcdroast so I was
>thinking about grabbing one of the cheap IDE drives that are out there.

I got the cheapest compatible I could find [< $100] and it works fine.
>
>Also will the IDE scsi emulation confuse things if you have real scsi
devices
>out there?
I've read [can't remember where, maybe on xcdroast site] that you can have
both.
>
Good luck,
    Courtney
>V
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>Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/
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