[NTLUG:Discuss] Can't Get XCDroast/SCSI Support To Work

[Mark Bickel]

jv wrote:

> Okay, I apologize for not including more information.  The CD-RW I'm using
> is an IDE (ATAPI?) Acer 6206a.  It appears that Caldera is actually loading
> the sc module on startup but, according to the README.ATAPI file, SCSI
> emulation HAS to be compiled into the kernel in order to work correctly.
> This is why I went through this whole exercise.  I have only IDE devices in
> my system, if anyone else has an IDE-only system with XCDroast I'd
> appreciate it if you could tell me what steps you took to get it working.
>
> Jaime Villela
> jvillela at airmail.net
>

OK, my CDR *IS* SCSI. Refering to the cdrecord README..ATAPI file I might
think that having added ATAPI SCSI emulation to the kernel, one then could
just
load the sd_mod and loop modules to get this working. Any one have more
experience?

Mark.Bickel at ericsson.com


>
> > jv wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, I just went through this exercise of re-compiling my kernel to
> > > include SCSI support so that I can use XCDroast.  Apparently, what I
> > > did wasn't right because I still get the "no SCSI support found"
> > > message when I run the application.  I'm using Caldera 2.3 and I've
> > > looked at their website but their tech support page offers no real
> > > insight into doing this for 2.3.  Is it different for every distro?
> > > Is anyone able to burn CDs with a different distro?
> >
> > OK,  I use XCDRoast under COL 2.3 w/ no problems. Remember that
> > XCDRoast  is just a front end to
> > the cdrecord utility. You did not state what model CDR you have,  but I
> > am assuming  here that it is SCSI.
> > You also did not state what type of SCSI  controller you have. You
> > probably did not need to recompile the
> > kernel to get this all working.  Loading the proper module should be
> > enough  to get the CDR drive to read
> > regular CD-ROMS (probably as /dev/scd0 ?). You can load the modules
> > manually w/ insmod command or
> > using  Caldera's  COAS utility "coas /usr/bin/coastool kernel" or from
> > the  KDE menu: COAS -> Kernel.
> > COAS kernel configurator does some autodetection of hardware, which may
> > help in configuring for SCSI.
> > In addition to the SCSI driver you need loopback device support
> > enabled.  Again, this can be loaded as a
> > module. Once you have gotten everything working you can recompile the
> > SCSI and loop devices into the
> > kernel if you want..
> >
> > Also you may (or may not) want to set up CDR to automount as a secondary
> > CD-ROM drive. To do this
> > edit  /etc/am.d/localdev and add a line like:         cdrom
> > dev:=/dev/scd0;addopts:=ro,utimeout=10
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mark.Bickel at ericsson.com
> >
> >