> So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer > and xcdroast. So, I recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi > support, emulation and scsi cdrom support. xcdroast > still complains.
No need to recompile your kernel... [cut and pasted] Linuxnewbie.org has a short article on setting up a CD-RW drive under Linux. It's rather RedHat specific, but the main parts can most likely apply to any distro. I know this topic comes up a lot... It mentions RedHat 6.0, Suse 6.1, Debian 2.1 and Storm 2000 and that *none* of them require a kernel recompile to get a CD-RW to work. They all have module support already available. http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/software/cdrecord_cdr.html Regards Hall
