HP 7200e CDRW with Linux

HP 7200e CDRW with Linux

Post by Peter Wrig » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00



I've been trying to get my 7200e at work running with linux and I did find
a nice web page with a step by step instructions.  It seems everything
works until I load the pg driver.  The only problem is that my dev
directory didn't have a pg0 file.

When the pg module was loaded it said something about having a major number
of 97, so I created a file in the dev directory called pg0 with a major
number of 97 and a minor number of 0.  That didn't work unfortunately.

I did get the source code for cdrecord 1.61 but the documentation on how to
compile it to use the pg module is pretty slim.  I don't know if it now
supports it like it didn't in earlier versions or not.  When I try to
get it to use the recompiled cdrecord, it says something about
operation not supported by device.

Anyone have any luck with getting the HP 7200e working under linux?

Oh I did get it to load up as a pcd and I was able to read CDs off of the
drive.

I'm using mnandrake 5.3 as my base, with kernel 2.0.36.

 
 
 

HP 7200e CDRW with Linux

Post by Thomas T. Veldhous » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00


Did you try makeing the device like this:

    ./MAKEDEV pg0

I am just assuming that it is already in the script and perhaps you set up
pg0 incorrectly.  The scripts sometimes set up appropriate links.  Also, I
use SCSI emulation on my 7200i, but you probably don't have that option on
the external.

Tom Veldhouse


>I've been trying to get my 7200e at work running with linux and I did find
>a nice web page with a step by step instructions.  It seems everything
>works until I load the pg driver.  The only problem is that my dev
>directory didn't have a pg0 file.

>When the pg module was loaded it said something about having a major number
>of 97, so I created a file in the dev directory called pg0 with a major
>number of 97 and a minor number of 0.  That didn't work unfortunately.

>I did get the source code for cdrecord 1.61 but the documentation on how to
>compile it to use the pg module is pretty slim.  I don't know if it now
>supports it like it didn't in earlier versions or not.  When I try to
>get it to use the recompiled cdrecord, it says something about
>operation not supported by device.

>Anyone have any luck with getting the HP 7200e working under linux?

>Oh I did get it to load up as a pcd and I was able to read CDs off of the
>drive.

>I'm using mnandrake 5.3 as my base, with kernel 2.0.36.


 
 
 

HP 7200e CDRW with Linux

Post by Peter Wrig » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00



Quote:>Did you try makeing the device like this:

>    ./MAKEDEV pg0

>I am just assuming that it is already in the script and perhaps you set up
>pg0 incorrectly.  The scripts sometimes set up appropriate links.  Also, I
>use SCSI emulation on my 7200i, but you probably don't have that option on
>the external.

Unfortunately its not in the script.  That's why I tried to make the block
file manually.