questions abou CD-ROM burning

[Rich Edelman]

On Friday 17 May 2002 01:47 pm, zscoundrel wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed an IDE/atapi CD-ROM burner on a Red
> Hat 7.2 system?  What steps are involved ?
>
> I am looking at the HOW-TO but for some reason it just ain't making any
> sense - and it is a little too early in the day for beer.
It's never too early for beer!

I haven't run RH in a long time... Hrm, make sure to add 'hdd=ide-scsi' to 
your lilo.conf (or grub config), substituting hdd for your drive's device, of 
course. that'll be your biggest hurdle, I suspect... make sure the module 
loads. You may need to throw it in /etc/modules (or RH's equivalent). 
cdrecord -scanbus (done as root) is always good for making sure your drive is 
actually seen. If you're using devfs, all the proper symlinks will be created 
when the module is loaded. If not, you'll have to create them yourself. 
Should be something like /dev/sg0 I believe. And don't forget to fix any 
permission/group problems that may crop up.

HTH,
Rich