aze Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Hi all! When I start K3B it says "scanning for devices...." but it take severals minutes to start. Wha is going on? No support for ATAPI with cdrdaoYou will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao. Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all writer devices. This way you won't have any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 I emulate scsi for all my cdrom devices so that k3b will not only use my writer, but I can also copy from my reader to my writer. Add the scsi emulation in the "append" line in lilo so that it loads at boot time. It would read something like "hdx=ide-scsi", where x is the corressponding ide location. hda is primary master hdb is primary slave hdc is secondary master hdd is secondary slave Then, use the k3b setup program to make the entrires in your fstab. Some have complained about this part, but I have not had a problem since I figured out what k3b is actually doing. Below how my files look. My dvd reader is secondary master and my cdrw is primary slave. image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-21mdk label="linux" root=/dev/hdd1 read-only optional vga=788 append=" devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdd5 splash=silent" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-21mdk.img /dev/hdd1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdd6 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,850 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd7 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom2 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd8 /mnt/MAN10_root ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd9 /mnt/MAN10_home ext3 defaults 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted December 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 thanks. could you be more specific please? what file should I edit? isn't hdX used for Hard disk drives? scsi emulation is for HDs or for CD/DVD roms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 The files are: /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab You must be root to edit these files. hdx is used to identify devices attached to your ide channels, whether hard drives or cdrom type drives. Scsi emulation: it's not just for breakfast anymore. Erm... no wait, I mean, scsi emulation is used a lot in linux/unix systems, from my understanding. There are others here who could give you a technical answer to that question. I don't know why it's used, just that when a program asks for it, it works! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 (edited) I have explanations on what to do on my website, check the config page, then config for 9.1 (haven't bothered to do it for 9.2 yet): http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration.html Edited December 28, 2003 by aRTee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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