Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question

2000-04-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
/dev/cdrom is the name of the file that is a symbolic link to /dev/scdx. It is in the /dev directory and called cdrom. The names tell you where they are because. Because they start with /, they are absolute paths. If they started with just a directory, or with ./ they would be relative paths fro

Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question

2000-04-16 Thread John P. Verel
In what directory should the symbolic link live...or does it not matter as long as in the path? Thanks On 04/13/00, 05:47:02PM -0400, Mark Basil wrote: > I'm not positive about this, but check and make sure that your /dev/cdrom is > a link to /dev/scdx (where x is 0-whatever)and not /dev/hdxy...

Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question: Solved!! And a readme suggestion.

2000-04-15 Thread John P. Verel
More. Per the X-CD-Roast 0.96ex README.ATAPI, I booted with a LILO command line of linux-up hdd=ide-scsi THEN (drum roll, please;), I executed insmod ide-scsi Ran cdrecord -scanbus...and the expected output emerged! Ran X-CD-Roast -nonroot option, it opened normally. (I'll configure it over the

RE: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question

2000-04-15 Thread Mark Basil
I'm not positive about this, but check and make sure that your /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/scdx (where x is 0-whatever)and not /dev/hdxy.hd are eide, and even though they are really, x-cd-roast uses generic scsi emulation, i.e. scdx hope that helps you out --mark -Original Message---