Thanks to all. The following got me up & reading from my external
CD-RW. Now I will play with "cdrecord" to see if I can write to it.
Nick
Joshua Franklin wrote:
>
> If you just want to use it for read, you can
> get the ``offical'' drivers from micro-solutions at
> http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/
> The README from their tar.gz lists these steps for
> 2.2.x+ kernals:
> cp backpack.o /lib/modules/<kernal>/misc/backpack.o
> insmod parport
> insmod paride
> insmod backpack
> depmod -a
> modprobe pcd
> mkdir /mnt/pcd
> mount /dev/pcd0 /mnt/pcd
> All these steps may or may not be necessary for your
> kernal version, and of course you can call your mount
> whatever you want. It works for me...now if they'd
> just release the source so we could get install
> boot disks. My solution was to sent ``Linux--Source
> for drivers to make boot disk--Please!!'' to their
> comment form at
> http://www.micro-solutions.com/webmaster/index.html
>
> Joshua Daniel Franklin
>
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