[TriLUG] help with Mandrake 10

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Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

>On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:56 am, Dan wrote:
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>>I just upgraded to Mandrake 10, I had been using 9.2.  Apparently I didn't
>>install the SCSI emulation stuff for my CD writer.  At boot the system sees
>>the drive as /dev/hda but when I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus' it doesn't find
>>it.  Previously the drive was located at 'dev=3,0,0'.  What package do I
>>need to install to regain this functionality?
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>MDK 10.0 uses Kernel 2.6.x, which doesn't need scsi emulation for for IDE 
>CD-RW anymore. And the new cdrecord (and K3B), can record using 2.6.x's IDE 
>CD-RW set up.
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>It should work (TM) with the CD-RW as a plain IDE device.
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>I don't have that much experience with kernel 2.6, so I cannot help you more.
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>Have you tried recording "as is", with all as IDE, and see what happens?
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I've used IDE burners on 2.6.x with good results. The key may be to make 
sure you are using a version
of cdrecord that has support for IDE burners... also, I believe there is 
a switch that tells cdrecord to
search the IDE chain, but I'm not on my linux box so I'm not sure what 
it is.