Thanks. That worked. I can now see both cdroms. Any ideas on how to disable autorun?
James On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 06:45, Brian Hanks wrote: > > > From: James Pifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: redhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: CD Burning Questions/Problems > > Date: 29 May 2002 20:40:37 -0400 > > > > I'm looking for some help regarding CD Burning. Right now I use > > X-CD-Roast version 0.98alpha9. I can burn CD's with it, but it does not > > see my regular CDRom so I can't directly burn from CD to CD. Plus > > X-CD-Roast doesn't support multi-session, but I'm figuring that's a > > shortfall of cdrecord, not the front end, please tactfully correct me if > > I'm wrong. I'm going to check and see if there's a newer version > > released. > > > > I've also looked for other front ends and found a couple that look > > pretty neat, such as Arson, but they don't see either my CDROM or my > > CDRW. After some searching I found a lot of references to needing to > > alias the ATAPI devices to SCSI. One post in the mailing list archive > > pointed to the "CD-Writing with an ATAPI CDR Mini-HOWTO". > > > > Problem is that is says to do things without much explanation. For > > example, I have an regular CDROM and a CDRW and not sure how to alias > > both devices. I'm not a Linux expert, so when Howtos make certain > > assumptions, even the howtos can be difficult. > > > > Is there a better Howto or some more explicit instructions somewhere? > > Am I going about this the correct way or is there a better way? > > As a sidenote, how do I disable autorun? (Redhat 7.2) > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > James > > > > > > > > ---- > > > I'll assume that your "regular CD-ROM" is an IDE device. As long as you > know which device (i.e. /dev/hd?) to which your CD-ROM is connnected we > should be able to fix. > > First, run "cdrecord -scanbus". Base on your above comments you should > only see your burner, not your regular CD-ROM. > > Then, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to modify the "kernel" line of your > usual boot image. Add the following based on the device of your regular > CD-ROM: "hd?=ide-scsi". For example, here is my grub.conf entry: > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-4) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-4 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi > hdd=ide-scsi > initrd /initrd-2.4.18-4.img > > Finally, reboot and run "cdrecord -scanbus" again. You should see your > drive now and it should work in X-CD-Roast. > > > Good Luck, > Brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
