[wellylug] Damn small Linux / Tosh Cdrom

[Sebastian Henschel]

hello list...

* Peter Jones <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz> [2006-06-22 14:24 +1200]:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: E.Chalaron [mailto:e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz]
> > 
> > > Well ... it would help if you checked whether dmesg has MORE info
> > > about it;
> > 
> > Actually not, I had a look and nothing relevant, [or I would
> > thought so..]

you could post the output of 'dmesg' to the list and we can have a
look at it.


> > > are you using the IDE-SCSI driver on it?  Or is it an actual SCSI 
> > > device?
> > 
> > If only I knew .. a toshiba specialist around the place ?
> 
> I hesitate to call myself a "toshiba specialist" but of all the toshi
> laptops I have dismantled, I've never seen a SCSI device in them. 
> F'rinstance looking at a CD-ROM out of a tecra (celery 400) right now and
> the drive is a Teac CD224E. Windows XP (sorry) on that machine says the
> driver used is cdrom.sys, just like the driver in my W2K (sorry) desktop,
> where the hardware is definitely IDE. 

IIRC, it was quite common with kernel 2.4 to run IDE burners under the
SCSI emulation. anyway, the drive should be one of sr0, hdb, hdc or hdd.

cheers,
 Sebastian

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