CD Writer

mascarasnake yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Oct 22 14:57:00 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:47, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> mascarasnake wrote:
> > I tossed this Question out last week and thought I'd give it another
> > whirl.
> > 
> > Recently popped a TEAC CD-W54E CD RW drive into my machine.I have 4
> > drives in my machine now (7500 604e/200 processor):
> > 
> > /dev/sda - a 1 gig hfs transfer SCSI HDD
> > /dev/hde - an 80 gig ATA/IDE HDD partitioned for OS 9.1 and YDL
> > /dev/hdg - the TEAC CD-W54E CD RW drive
> > /dev/scd0 - Apple SCSI CD-ROM
> 
> The problem is that cdrecord only will record on SCSI devices, not IDE.
> This can be fixed by telling the kernel to make your IDE drive an emulated 
> (virtual) scsi device.
> 
> You add the following to your boot parameters:
> 
>  	hdg=ide-scsi
> 
> This will create an emulated (virtual) SCSI device using /dev/hdg.
> 
> Geoff.
Thanks. geoff,
I know Mac OS 9.xx and below still recognizes IDE drives as SCSI. New
info that ydl does as well
I'm still still kinda new. Where do I fix this...Which file do I
create/amend