I recently installed Slack 9.1 from DVD without any probelms, however
Slack only detects my DVD drive and not my second CD-RW drive. There is
only one CD related entry in /dev i.e. /dev/cdrom. I don't know if this
is a hardware detection problem, or if there is some configuration
required on my part to get it detected.

Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated

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Shane Mitchell wrote:

> I recently installed Slack 9.1 from DVD without any probelms, however
> Slack only detects my DVD drive and not my second CD-RW drive. There is
> only one CD related entry in /dev i.e. /dev/cdrom. I don't know if this
> is a hardware detection problem, or if there is some configuration
> required on my part to get it detected.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated
>

Does your BIOS detect it ? If so, you may need to add this line
in /etc/lilo.conf (if you use lilo as your boot loader):

append="hdx=ide-scsi hdy=ide-scsi"
where x is your DVD and y your CD-RW.

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Colossus

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Shane Mitchell wrote:
| I recently installed Slack 9.1 from DVD without any probelms, however
| Slack only detects my DVD drive and not my second CD-RW drive. There is
| only one CD related entry in /dev i.e. /dev/cdrom. I don't know if this
| is a hardware detection problem, or if there is some configuration
| required on my part to get it detected.
|
| Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated
|
Hello,
assuming that all your drives (hard disks, cdrw, dvd) are IDE, you
will notice something like this:

//------------------------------------------
jkb@decadence:~$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 2 23:35 /dev/cdrom ->
/dev/hdd
//------------------------------------------

/dev/cdrom is only a *symbolic link* to /dev/hdd

I am pretty sure that your cdrw drive is visible as /dev/hdX, where X
depends on the position of your cdrw (primary master, primary slaver,
secondary master or secondary slave would give you X=a, b, c or d).

All you have to do is to symlink i.e. /dev/cdrw to proper device, ie.
//------------------------------------------
jkb@decadence:~$ su
Password:
root@decadence:/home/jkb# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrw
//------------------------------------------

Of course burning anything is another subject. Reading
/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/CD-Writing-HOWTO (assuming that you have the
Linux-HOWTOs package installed; if not, I suggest installing it i.e.
from your Slackware CD) should be very helpful.

Regards - jkb

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On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:10:12 +0100, Colossus wrote:

> Shane Mitchell wrote:
>
>> I recently installed Slack 9.1 from DVD without any probelms, however
>> Slack only detects my DVD drive and not my second CD-RW drive. There is
>> only one CD related entry in /dev i.e. /dev/cdrom. I don't know if this
>> is a hardware detection problem, or if there is some configuration
>> required on my part to get it detected.
>>
>> Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated
>>
>
> Does your BIOS detect it ? If so, you may need to add this line
> in /etc/lilo.conf (if you use lilo as your boot loader):
>
> append="hdx=ide-scsi hdy=ide-scsi"
> where x is your DVD and y your CD-RW.

that's the point. if you need to burn, you need to load the scsi module
for ide drives or sort it out in the kernel:

* Block devices
o turn ON Loopback device support
* ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
o IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
+ turn OFF IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
+ turn ON SCSI emulation support
* SCSI support
o turn ON SCSI support
o turn ON SCSI CDROM support
o turn ON Enable vendor specific extensions
o turn ON SCSI generic support
* File Systems
o turn ON ISO 9660 CDROM file system support
o turn ON Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions

Then the drives will be /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1. is how do you burn going to
be your next question ? cdrecord and cdrdao are kick ass command line
burning apps ; cdparanoia is an audio ripping tool ; xcdroast is a
graphical interface for cdrecord and cdrdao. check out the man pages for
all these or google.

BigMac

BigMac wrote:

> that's the point. if you need to burn, you need to load the scsi module
> for ide drives or sort it out in the kernel:
>
> * Block devices
> o turn ON Loopback device support
> * ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
> o IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
> + turn OFF IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
> + turn ON SCSI emulation support
> * SCSI support
> o turn ON SCSI support
> o turn ON SCSI CDROM support
> o turn ON Enable vendor specific extensions
> o turn ON SCSI generic support
> * File Systems
> o turn ON ISO 9660 CDROM file system support
> o turn ON Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions
>
> Then the drives will be /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1. is how do you burn going to
> be your next question ? cdrecord and cdrdao are kick ass command line
> burning apps ; cdparanoia is an audio ripping tool ; xcdroast is a
> graphical interface for cdrecord and cdrdao. check out the man pages for
> all these or google.
>
> BigMac

Thanks BigMac, got that working, and used cdrecord to burn some data to
CD. However, I can't read the CD after burning. Would I be better off
creating an ISO image and burning that, what's the easiest way to do
this under Slack?, I couldn't really make any sense out of the mkisofs
man page , or would I be better off installing k3b for KDE?

Thanks in advance for any advice

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