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Thanks... it works now :D I didn't have lba32 in my lilo.conf, but once I added it in I got rid of that pesky "Fatal geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big" error

I have the same scanner and it works perfectly in 9.1. I have hardly used it in over a year because getting it to work with HP's software in windows was painful.

so on my desktop, i can just open the drive... is that supermount? what's the advantage/disadvantage of supermount? (i'm trying to find info on google but not finding much that seems useful to someone who doesn't already know what supermount is)

oh, interesting. (duh) I didn't realize that I'd need to enter a command to get the disc to eject, that the button on the drive wouldn't work. "eject" works like a charm. thanks again!

i put raw1394 in /etc/modules and it seems to be finding it on bootup, which is great. for some reason once the drive is mounted, it no longer ejects... :roll: but at least i can get to the cd drive if i need to. ejecting is a problem for another day :)

8) 8) 8) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 8) 8) 8) I'm way too excited about this (it's just a cd-rw for crying out loud) but now IT WORKS! I had a music cd in there and it didn't mount, put a data cd and it fired right up. Thanks for all your help!

MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH!! I had just discovered that same link (http://www.geocities.com/lawrencioy/) and was coming back to say that it had finally discovered the drive on the system... now i just need to figure out how to mount it because i must be doing something wrong. either the raw1394 did the trick or using insmod instead of modprobe. (I don't yet understand the difference, but progress is progress whether I understand it yet or not :)) I now have /dev/scd0. [root@localhost bill]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-R/RW SR-C8102 Rev: 1S11 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 I tried to mount it but this is what I get: [root@localhost bill]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems

ok. I am noticing that sd_mod is never loaded after I reboot. Do I need to do anything in particular to get it to keep loading? I assume that's the Mandrake Control Center... but where would I see whether hotplug is starting? I don't see anything in the detected hardware about firewire, but I just may not be recognizing it. there are 3 USB controllers, 3 USB UHCI Root hubs, and an SMBus controller. Here's what looked relevant from my /var/log/messages: Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[e0200000-e02007ff] Max Packet=[2048] Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset! Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login failed Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: sbp2_login_device failed Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: scsi0 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver (host: ohci1394) Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: $Rev: 707 $ James Goodwin <jamesg@filanet.com> Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: SBP-2 module load options: Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max speed supported: S400 Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max sectors per I/O supported: 255 Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max outstanding commands supported: 8 Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1 Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Serialized I/O (debug): no Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Exclusive login: yes Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:05.0 Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.1 Apr 3 06:39:41 localhost rc: Starting partmon: succeeded I'm going to keep working on this a bit tonight but may be away all weekend... I don't want you thinking I'm just running away. THANK YOU for all the help! :D I've been trying to RTFM but most of these commands just don't mean much until you've actually needed then and get to see what they do. between this and the other little things that've helped me from your other posts (just got animated lilo screens from your tips and tricks post, we'll see if i can get them working)... you've helped out tremendously!

ok. i REALLY appreciate your help on this. I DO have a /dev/scsi/ directory, but there's nothing in it. nothing else new popped up. nothing was detected with ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh or when i did it manually as your text suggested (echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi) what I noticed was that the modules are loading out of order in lsmod: [root@localhost Documents]# lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted ide-floppy 15580 0 (autoclean) sd_mod 13100 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-cd 33856 0 (autoclean) cdrom 31648 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd] binfmt_misc 7020 1 parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean) lp 8096 0 (autoclean) parport 34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] agpgart 40896 7 (autoclean) i810_audio 26248 0 soundcore 6276 0 [i810_audio] ac97_codec 12488 0 [i810_audio] nfsd 74256 8 (autoclean) orinoco_cs 5652 1 orinoco 36972 0 [orinoco_cs] hermes 7524 0 [orinoco_cs orinoco] ds 8456 2 [orinoco_cs] yenta_socket 13056 2 pcmcia_core 57184 0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket] af_packet 14952 3 (autoclean) floppy 55132 0 3c59x 29584 1 (autoclean) scsimon 9280 0 (unused) sbp2 19424 0 ohci1394 19048 0 (unused) ieee1394 45900 0 [sbp2 ohci1394] nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean) ntfs 76812 1 (autoclean) usb-storage 72952 0 (unused) scsi_mod 103284 4 [sd_mod sr_mod scsimon sbp2 usb-storage] usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused) usbcore 72992 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci] rtc 8060 0 (autoclean) ext3 59916 2 jbd 38972 2 [ext3] I tried to remove them and then put them back (i used "modprobe -r" for them in reverse order and had to get rid of a few dependencies too) and then put them back in order. but they showed up out of order immediately-- scsi_mod sort of jumps ahead of everything else. so i'm having trouble figuring out how to get them in order? or does the order really matter as long as they're all loaded??

the only one missing was sd_mod. i added it and now it's there on lsmod. "ls -l /dev/sc*" gives me only one entry: "/dev/scsimon -> misc/scsimon" That isn't what we're looking for, is it? But we're definitely getting closer :)

Here's a page that doesn't mean much to me, but if you can translate it into easily telling me what to do, that'd be great :) (note: this is about a different external drive, but it is probably similar to my drive?) i think i've done everything but the part at the end about inserting (because I'm not sure where to insert it?). from http://www.cs.unm.edu/~maccabe/Dell_x200.html#firewire: The trick to making things work is to attach the drive before inserting (modprobe) the appropriate modules. Once the disk has been connected, you should insert the following modules: ieee1394 (you can probably insert this before connecting the disk) ohci1394 sbp2 If you compiled them as modules, you will also need to insert: scsi_mod sd_mod Once everything is in place, the device will be /dev/scd0, i.e., "ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom"

I don't know if it's ide or scsi or something else. It's "external" because it's separate from the notebook, but connects when you "dock" the computer into the "media base" (cradle, docking station, whatever you want to call it.) It looks like this: so the cdrom is on that bottom part that detatches. I THINK that the interface between the laptop and the base is firewire. (not a normal firewire port, but it seems to be firewire nonetheless.) The installer's NTFS resizer didn't work very well for me, it was only able to shrink the NTFS partition by about 300MB... not enough. I ended up downloading a program called "BootIt NG", which did the trick nicely. I think the problem was that windows had scattered info around the drive, and the mandrake installer couldn't move it around without destroying the data? XP was making me frustrated BEFORE I started trying to install linux... but it made me MORE frustrated on the way out the door. :lol: I just rebooted, thinking maybe part of the problem could be that the system had suspended earlier, but after the reboot when I tried "mount /mnt/cdrom" it says "mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist" (not sure if that sheds light on anything or not). Thanks. :)

The miracle wasn't that mandrake worked... it was that *I* was able to avoid messing everything up. I thought the learning curve would be a lot steeper than it has been--I've only been running linux for several weeks and so far i've been able to resolve most issues with a google search. This problem was only alluded to on a few pages (something like "and the CD-RW doesn't work yet, but that's ok because i hardly use it anyway") KDE put an icon on the desktop (like you said), and it thinks that it has a drive mounted at /mnt/cdrom but the link doesn't work. Harddrake never sees the drive and there's no link in the control center to set a mount point for cd drives (like there would be if it saw a drive). The reason i need the firewire running is that the drive is in the media base/docking station, which docks by (i guess) firewire. So i couldn't install until i got firewire working. I don't see anything in my /etc/lilo.conf about the cd drive at all :( boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default="linux" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=off quiet" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=off" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=nomount acpi=off failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe What does that mean, since it's not there at all, but kde at least thinks it sees something? Thanks for the help! Edit: forgot to add that when i try "mount /mnt/cdrom" i get nothing (just another prompt). when i try to go to navigate to it ("cd /mnt/cdrom"), i get "bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error". i get the same responses after "supermount -i disable". thanks.

thanks, that was really helpful in getting my wireless barricade print server to work. in case anyone else has a barricade and has the annoying print job trailer that wastes multiple sheets of paper everytime you print, the newest firmware fixes the problem (at least for the SMC 7004AWBR but probably others).

Edit 12/30/03: 9.2 download edition automatically sees the drive after installation and it works perfectly! i am only several weeks into my newbie-dom, but so far things have gone VERY smoothly--but any help anyone is able to give would be greatly appreciated. I have a Gateway 200 laptop (the same computer as a dell latitude x200 and maybe others) and by some miracle i have mandrake 9.1 running and everything works except for the CD-RW in the media base. the drive worked fine during install (i had to load the 3 drivers for it during the install) but now that mandrake is installed i can't get anything to see the drive. it looks like the drivers (modules?) are loaded (ieee1394, ohci1394, sbp2)... does anyone have any idea what else i need to do? Thanks for any help and I apologize if I've gotten any terminology wrong.

thanks for the tip MottS. i'm slowly figuring out how everything works and now i see exactly how urpmi works from the command line :D