[wellylug] CD Burner

[Wood Brent]

> 
> Santa was good enough to bring me a cd burner (IDE) for Christmas just
> in time to replace my aging CDRom.
> 
> The question is, how do I get Mandrake 9.0 to recognise it as a burner -
> >From my reading linux expects all burners to be scsi?? - How do I go
> about fooling it?
> 

Depending on the drive, Mandrake 9 may autodetect it. Try installing/running
something like eroaster & use its drive detect facilities to see if it works.

If not, you can manually mount it as a virtual SCSI drive (as you mentioned
above), For a detailed description of how to do this, see 

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cdrw.htm

It isn't Mandrake specific, but is a good place to start.

If you don't want to resort to this, a reinstall of Mandrake 9 should find the
CDRW & sort it all out. It seems to do this sort of hardware detection/
configuration better on installation than afterwards.


Hope this helps....

  Cheers

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