which modules do i need to load for my cd-rw drive

neocui · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 186

i;m trying to get my cdrw drive working... i know i need to used scsi emulation, so i passed that option to the kernel (hdd=ide-scsi) and i have the following modules loaded:

ide-scsi
aic7xxx (for my scsci and scsi zip adapter)
sd_mod
sg
sr_mod

however, I;m nor getting a sr device in my dev fs... help?

pilla · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:05 pm Post subject:

Maybe you need to load sr for that. I am not sure, as I have everything compiled in the kernel for my box.
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neocui · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 186

I though the module for scsi cdrom is sr_mod.... what is sr?

boonders · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 46 Location: iowa

do you have scsi-emulation built into your kernel?

ben_h · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:10 am Post subject:

For a burner, you'll use the /dev/sg* (scsi generic) devices instead of /dev/sr* (scsi cdrom) ones. the modules you've got loaded should do it.

I'd check to make sure of that, but I'm on my laptop at the moment -- no cdrw in it

prberens · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:51 am Post subject:

For my IDE cdrw to work I had to:

Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support built as a module (ide-cd),
build SCSI emulation support into the kernel,
build SCSI support into the kernel,
build SCSI CD-ROM support as a module (sr_mod), and
build SCSI generic support as a module (sg)

My kernel command line includes hdc=scsi hdd=scsi

And my dvd and cdrw work great

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