[ale] another CD-RW question

Thu Oct 14 15:16:52 EDT 1999

In addition to enabling scsi emulation, remove ide-atapi cd rom support if the cdrw is the only machine in your system. I am using a HP 1040 in my machine and it works fine.I will be willing to help you if you need further help..

Regards,
Vaidhy

PS: If you can come to ALS, look for me in the debian booth. I have the machine with CD RW here.

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:28:30AM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:35:47PM -0400, Keith Morris wrote:
> > I'm a serious linux newbie running Mandrake 6.0 and was wondering if there 
> > is any way to use an ATAPI/IDE CD-RW (HP 1080i) within linux or if you are 
> > limited to scsi writers.  also, I am only showing that my CD reader is 
> > available from within linux do I have to add a line in some config file for 
> > it to be available?
> 
> 	Since I only use SCSI devices, I don't have personal experience
> with this, but there is a SCSI emulation which is used to make IDE devices
> respond to SCSI commands.  That allows user space applications like
> cdrecord to issue generic SCSI commands and have them interpreted by the
> kernel and issued to the IDE devices.  It's my understanding that the
> IDE CD-RW drives work with this.  In order to access your IDE CD-RW
> drive as a writer, you have to enable the IDE SCSI emulation in the kernel,
> if it's not there already.  It then should work.
> 
> > sorry for the ignorance.
> 
> > Keith Morris
> > Senior Graphic Designer/Compositor
> > Brick House Editorial
> > Atlanta, GA
> 
> 	Mike
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