[NTLUG:Discuss] Using 2 CD-ROM's with X-CD-Roast

[Kevin Brannen]

"J. Reeves Hall" wrote:
> 
> I have two IDE CD-ROM drives, one 40x reader (Pine) on /dev/hdd and one
> 4x writer (Philips) on /dev/hdc. I'm having a beast of a time getting
> X-CD-Roast to handle this pair. The writer obviously needs the ide-scsi
> driver (to emulate a SCSI interface), and that worked fine (for reading
> and burning) until I added the reader to the system yesterday.
> 
> Both drives work fine as readers in either ide-cd (normal ATAPI) or
> ide-scsi (scsi emulation) mode. They can be mounted as /dev/hdc or
> /dev/hdd, or as /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1, depending on which modules I'm
> running. The problem comes when I try to burn.
> 

I would be tempted to try putting them on different sides of the IDE
chain, make one of them /dev/hdb.  Probably won't make a difference, but
when you're desparate... :-)

Also consider dumping the CD to disk, then use mkiofs to create the burn
image.  Don't help if you device has trouble reading the disk, but the
process works well, and may stress your system less.

I just got cdroast to work last night, on a SCSI Yamaha.  I now feel
confident about having a good backup. :-)

Kevin