[techtalk] Setting up my Mitsumi 4802TE CDRW under Redhat Linux 6.0

[Beverly Guillermo]

> You should have the following line in your lilo.conf though (replace hdb
> with your drive):
> append = "hdb=ide-scsi"


This only works for version 2.0.x kernels.  For version 2.2.x, you have to
do a little something different, well, at least on mine. =)


> Then make sure the necessary support is compiled into your kernel:
> root at machine #grep SCSI /usr/src/linux/.config|grep -v "#"
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
> CONFIG_SCSI=y

Yep... do this.  If not, here's the excerpt from the CD-Writing HOWTO
faq, this is what you need configured in your kernel:

Sect	Description			Module		SCSI	IDE	PP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
BLOCK   Enhance IDE/MFM/RLL...          	                 Y
BLOCK	IDE/ATAPI CDROM			ide-cd			 M
BLOCK	SCSI hostadaptor emulation	ide-scsi		 M
BLOCK   Loopback device			loop		 M	 M	M

...

SCSI	SCSI Support			scsi_mod	Y/M	Y/M	
SCSI	SCSI CD-ROM Support		sr_mod		Y/M	Y/M
SCSI	Enable vendor-specific				 Y	 Y
SCSI	SCSI generic support		sg		Y/M	Y/M
SCSI	(select a low-level driver)			 Y

FS	ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem	iso9660		 Y	 Y	Y
FS	Microsoft Joliet cdrom...	joliet		 M	 M	M

I'm using kernel 2.2.12 and for the SCSI stuff, I built them all as
modules, especially the SCSI cdrom support because I have a regular
ATAPI/IDE CDROM as well and I didn't want that to be recognized as a SCSI
drive.

Now, to get them to be recognized.  Now, you need to check to find out
what device name has been given to the CDRW Drive. 

Then, in the local startup script, I had entered:


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