RH 5.0 / added CD-RW, ordinary CD not recognized

RH 5.0 / added CD-RW, ordinary CD not recognized

Post by Miika Asun » Sun, 26 Apr 1998 04:00:00



OS:                     Red Hat 5.0 / Kernel not modified

New configuration:

IDE 2 Master (hdc):     ordinary IDE(ATAPI) CD-ROM (jumpered as master)
IDE 2 Slave (hdd):      HP CD-RW (jumpered as slave)

Original Configuration before HP

IDE 2 (hdd):            ordinary IDE(ATAPI) CD-ROM (jumpered as slave)

When I boot, it doesn't even probe for hdc, unless I command
at lilo promp: linux hdc=cdrom

I have made the following changes:

/dev/cdrom ->        /dev/hdc        (origally -> /dev/hdd)

fstab: /dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom/     iso9660  [unnecessary omitted]
fstab: /dev/hdd         none            ignore   ... ...

Changes are not enough. With the mentioned lilo
command line things work normally.

How to fix things so that I don't need to give the command line, and
that linux would automatically recognize the ordinary IDE drive?
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RH 5.0 / added CD-RW, ordinary CD not recognized

Post by Miika Asun » Sun, 26 Apr 1998 04:00:00


OS:                     Red Hat 5.0 / Kernel not modified

New configuration:

IDE 2 Master (hdc):     ordinary IDE(ATAPI) CD-ROM (jumpered as master)
IDE 2 Slave (hdd):      HP CD-RW (jumpered as slave)

Original Configuration before HP

IDE 2 (hdd):            ordinary IDE(ATAPI) CD-ROM (jumpered as slave)

When I boot, it doesn't even probe for hdc, unless I command
at lilo promp: linux hdc=cdrom

I have made the following changes:

/dev/cdrom ->        /dev/hdc        (origally -> /dev/hdd)

fstab: /dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom/     iso9660  [unnecessary omitted]
fstab: /dev/hdd         none            ignore   ... ...

Changes are not enough. With the mentioned lilo
command line things work normally.

How to fix things so that I don't need to give the command line, and
that linux would automatically recognize the ordinary IDE drive?
--
Miika Asunta                            Musician (Double Bass)

Tel. +358-0-7374 89                    
Cellular: +358-40-5477 842              http://www.siba.fi/~masunta

 
 
 

1. Reading CD-R & CD-RW with an ATAPI HP 7200e CD-Writer on RH 6.0...

I am presently unable to read CD-RWs or CD-Rs that are
not closed. I want to use both as lightweight backups.

I would prefer not to have to build a kernel. Reading
relevant posts has left me confused. (I am presently
assuming that the issue is UDF.)

Do you know if what I am trying to do is impossible, or
can you suggest pointers to continue investigation?

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks, Joe

PS.

The following may be germane, but I don't want to
distract from my question :-)

I use DirectCD on w95/98 to write the CD-RW and CD-Rs.
(I am assuming that I can use cdwriter to write, but so
far have only verified that I can use -eject and -load
to open and shut the drive tray :-))

I can read CR-ROMs and closed CD-Rs. This took me a while,
using the following magic:
    modprobe parport
    modprobe paride
    modprobe epat
    modprobe pcd
    mount -t iso9660 /dev/pcd0 /mnt/cdrw
If I try to mount a CD-R or CD-RW, I get the following barf:
    mount: block device /dev/pcd0 is write-protected,
        mounting read-only
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
       /dev/pcd0, or too many mounted file systems

The issue would appear to be UDF. I downloaded udf-0.8.8
from http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~bfennema/udf.html (this
seems to me to not require a kernel patch). I built this,
installed, did the modprobe udf, but when I did
    mount -t udf /dev/pcd0 /mnt/cdrw
with any CD in the drive (CD-{ROM,RW,R}), the CD-Writer
gurgled briefly and then my machine hung. I waited for
5 mins. but it still remained unresponsive. I rebooted
and repeated many times.

I read the FAQ in the udf-0.8.9.1 download (from
http://www.trylinux.com/projects/udf/index.html), and
was confused by the following:
    2.3) Can I read DirectCD (or other packet-writing
         software) discs with this driver?
    Yes, you should be able to.
but later the FAQ writes:
    3.2) How come some discs can be read in DirectCD,
         but not with this driver?
    Usually, these are discs that DirectCD (or other
    packet-writing software) has not 'closed', ie,
    finished writing the UDF volume information. Some
    of these discs will cause the kernel to crash in the
    lower-level driver, even if the UDF driver isn't
    loaded. More work needs to be done to understand this
    problem.

So it would appear that I can't read CD-RWs or open CD-Rs
for the moment?

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