[wplug] ide burner question

[Hagbard Celine]

A CD-ROM app should, as a matter of course, write to /dev/cdrom.  In turn,
/dev/cdrom is a symlink to a special device file.

I run *all* my CD-ROM drives, burners or not, on SCSI emulation, and have *no*
IDE CD-ROM drivers loaded.  /dev/cdrom points to /dev/scd0 (each of my boxes
has one CD-ROM drive each).  Works like a charm, and I can even play audio on
my burners.

Hagbard
> 
> The only setup matters I've had with an Atapi ide burner (Acer) is that
> on install of Mandrake it is a kernel argument, "hdd=ide-scsi," is
> automatically added to lilo.  This seems to make it accessible by
> cdrecord frontends, though at times I have had trouble getting the
> frontends to work - a problem that was solved on a new install.
> 
> The problem I have is that the burner frontends do not recognize my
> other cdrom as a read device (it's not automatically set up as
> "hdc=ide-scsc"), nor, on the other hand, is the burner recognized by the
> cdplayer programs.  If I try using the argument of the burner for the
> cdrom, the cdrom is no longer recognized by the cdplayer applications.
> While it would be nice to have both drives able to play CD's, I can live
> easily enough with just the one, but I would prefer not to give up the
> ability to play CD's altogether.   Any suggestions on how to have the
> burner apps read from an ide Atapi cdrom without giving up the ability
> to play audio CD's?
> 
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