Slack with cdrw; anyone know what to do?

[Mistshadow]

I've searched and everything and can't seem to get a coherent answer about this anywhere.

How do I get Slackware to recognize my cdrw? As far it's concerned it's just not there. But the thing works fine with every other distro.   :confused:  

When I ran k3b setup it said I needed to enable scsi emulation for all drives, and it was grayed out. Well, I can't seem to get an answer on how to do that either, and besides, only the cdrw needs that; the other drive is just a dvd-rom.

And the kicker is, it did the same thing on the other computer; the cdrw on it is a 2-year old 24x10x40. This is Slack 9.1 we're talking about here. I just don't get it.

Now, on the one computer I'm going to have SuSE (and I know you're probably sick of me complaining about it not getting here fast enough; sowwy    ). But I really wouldn't mind having Slack on the other computer, with the older cdrw, just because I really liked Slack except for the cdrw problem.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

[shuiend]

Well is the cd-rw a ide device? If it is what device is it? hda, hdb, hdc, jdd. I am thinking it will either be hdc or hdd. Once you figure that out you will need to open up your lilo.conf and add this to it.
append="hdx=ide-scsi"

change x to what ever ide device it is. info on it

Then run k3B Setup again if you need any more help just reply and i can offer some more assitence

[Kintaro]

Yea, that man is right, slackware doesnt add that option to the kernel by defualt, so you have to. I does mention the option in the insall process however.

[Kintaro]

oh and after you have added that to lilo.conf make sure you type "lilo" at the command line as root so its all cool.

[Mistshadow]

Thanks!  

[Kintaro]

No probs bro.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Mistshadow:
[QB the cdrw on it is a 2-year old 24x10x40. This is Slack 9.1 we're talking about here. [/QB]

gah!, i feel old... my cdrw is a 6X4X32.

[shuiend]

baa i got all beat. I got a sony 4x2x16x i bleieve in my rents comp. Originally got it for my P1 compaq. Parents get really mad when i spend 20min burnin a cd on there comp.

[Mistshadow]

quote:Originally posted by X11: YOU FUCKING CUNTS.:
No probs bro.

Sis, actually.    

I had one of those slow cd-rws too, but I sold it as part of what was left over from my old computer, along with the P3 processor, modem, and 16 mb graphics card.

That was the computer that came with Windows ME installed. Is it any wonder I'm a Linux user now?

[Master of Reality]

the burning laser finally died in my a couple weeks ago... and it was so close to retirement. Hopefully ill get a DVD/CD-RW in march.

[KernelPanic]

Get a DVD+/-RW