Hi all

I can burn cd's no problem on my cd-burner, actually I really do get 52x speeds could never get that in windows.

Anyway....

However I also have a DVD burner here too. All the threads here I find are for people like in Shilo's situation that have just a DVD burner/rom...but not TWO devices like I do. I can't see my DVD and shilo's sticky doesnt work for me as I already have fstab of:

I do have a "block device" called "cdrom" in /dev

I don't see any "block devices" called "dvdrom" or anything similar in my /dev.

I do see "block devices" of "hdd" "hdd1" ,etc.

Should I maybe do a symlink of so I can see the DVD burner:

Thank you in advance

Yes, but since xine and others default to /dev/dvd maybe that's a better choice of names.

Do something like:

dmesg | grep hd

To find which block device is your DVD burner, then just create the symlink like you were thinking. The name is up to you, but /dev/dvd does tend to be the default for most programs. Though personally, I have two links to my actual device, /dev/dvd and /dev/dvdrw.

Then you would create an appropriate line in /etc/fstab for the device.

By the way, the link to /dev/dvd is really just for convenience, there is nothing stopping you from just using /dev/hdb or whatever the device file is for the burner on your system.

When I try "dmesg | grep hd" i get

root@pooter:~# dmesg | grep hd
ide-scsi: unsup command: dev hdd: flags = REQ_CMD REQ_STARTED
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0

So two questions, does slack see this DVD as "hdd" is that what that output gave me?

I also have both dvd and cd burners on the same ide cable. I think the dvd burner is selected as master, and both show OK in k3b.
I can mount the dvd burner by doing #mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom,
and the cd burner by doing #mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
my fstab is /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0

I don't remember doing anything special to make them work.

Here's the output of $dmesg | grep hd
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Slackware10.2 ro root=301 hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: Maxtor 6E030L0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: ASUS CRW-2410A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 60058656 sectors (30750 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3738/255/63, UDMA(133)
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.

In /etc/lilo.conf I have the line: append="hdc=ide-scsi"
this was added during install of slackware.


Edit: WTF are those smilies doing in my BIOS lines???!

Why are you guys still using ide-scsi??

It was deprecated years ago. I'm not surprised you're having problems with it now.
Your BIOS really likes you.

LOL at the smileys comment you had hahahah.

But OMG OMG you William your comment just caught my eye and steered me to my lilo.conf of all things. I think you just indirectly fixed me

I am using the 2.6.10 kernel when I boot up I allways get some comment that ide-scsi is depracated..

I saw in my lilo I have append="hdd=ide-scsi apm=power-off"

Ow just banged my toe..

omg i just posted that and see rkelson's post now.

Oh lastly:

I did make the symlinks:

Would the following fstab be ideal for reading DVD's :

0

Thanks again a ton.

You need to "mount /dev/slippers"

R-o-o-o-o-o-f-l-z

after i told fstab to use the above my KDE shows DVD in the list of available devices now in storage.

Hi,

You could place the;

in your 2.4 stanza of the lilo.conf file.

The insert;

for the 2.6 stanza would pass the parameter for the kernel since the ide-cd is now the module that is used. This can be done to force the assignment.