>From owner-linux-parport@gear.torque.net Wed Jan 10 16:21:15 2001
>Have recently got an HP-7200 external CD-RW drive...and can't
>get it to work! I have read all the archives of this list...but
>none seem to be having the kind of problem which I face.
>I have an AMD-K6-500 running RH 7.0. I have an internal Creative
>CD-ROM drive also. I have NO SCSI controllers/devices.
>I started with the usual setup, loading paride, epat and pg.
>got the following dmesg output
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>[root@gh-1194 /root]# insmod paride
>Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/paride.o
>paride: version 1.04 installed
>[root@gh-1194 /root]# insmod epat
>Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/epat.o
>paride: epat registered as protocol 0
>[root@gh-1194 /root]# insmod pg
>Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/pg.o
>pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
>pg0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
>pg0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 5 (EPP-32), delay 1
>pg0: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, slave
>[root@gh-1194 /root]#
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>So far so good? Then cdrecord -scanbus still does not help.
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>[root@gh-1194 /root]# cdrecord -scanbus
>Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling
>Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
>scsibus0:
>cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>So I load the ide-scsi module.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>[root@gh-1194 /root]# insmod ide-scsi
>Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/ide-scsi.o
>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD5233E Rev: 1.00
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Note that there is no mention of the CD-RW here. But cdrecord -scanbus
>seems to work!
If I understand you correctly: cdrecord only works with IDE-SCSI
then you are fooled by the Linux binary incompatibility problem.
did you compile cdrecord on the machine where you made the tests?
BTW: cdrecord-1.10a11 tries to work around this particular problem.
Jörg
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