static Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 I'd like to be able to copy from my dvd drive to my cd-rw, but I haven't found a burning app in linux that lets me add my pioneer dvd 16x as the reader drive. To copy I have to read with my burner first. This is of course a waste of having a 48x burn speed. Anyone have any secrets for adding a drive to k3b? (one of the sweetest burning apps for linux) Note: I do see it when I run k3b setup (and it asks for my root passwd and sets up fstab..) but then just isn't there as a choice at burn time :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 Do you have both set up as scsi emulation? That's what I do to get my reader and writer going for disk to disk function. I have both listed in lilo on the append line: append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted June 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 hummmm, OK... weird. I thought it was the burning process that needed it; but reading? Great! I'll try it tonight. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 I thought the same thing until I read (somewhere) that scsi emulation was needed for disk to disk. So, I tried it, and it worked! By the way, I use k3b in both Mandrake and gentoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted June 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Pro: GREAT! It works! Thanks! Con: I broke my rpm database Now it looks for /dev/hdb when I try to use urpmi and can't 'cause it's now /dev/scd0 (burner's scd1). Can someone help me fix this? With this fixed, I'll have my dream linux system where every piece of hardware I own and software I'd like works! (Just for me to tear it down later in the week to re-build it so that it's clean; then I won't touch it for a year) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Just go to the software sources manager and install the new sources after removing the old sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 does urpmi use the device name? i had a somewhat similar problem wherein whenever urpmi-zed a package it uses my cdrw drive (secondary IDE master, /dev/scd0 and mounted at /mnt/cdrom). instead of reconfiguring all sources (which would take a significant amount of time) i just remounted my cdrw drive at /mnt/cdrw and my cdrom drive at /mnt/cdrom. now everytime urpmi wants a specific mandrake cd it is my cdrom drive that gets ejected. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 I like that better than my answer, ramfree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted June 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 I prefer Ixthusdan's way... Countless other things'll get broken ramfree's way I'm afraid, considering the way many things remember where they'd been installed from. I use this scheme: CDRW for software installs, DVD for movies/music/multimedia. Plus, I just got used to cdrom being the bottom one, and cdrom2 being the top one! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 i dont know about things that are broken as i am still able to use my drives ok. afaik, these are the rules of attaching cdrom/cdrw drives (dont know where i got them but these are the rules i live by) dont mix cdrom/cdrw drives with hdd on the same ide cable [*]re-writable drives should be made master when sharing with read-only drives and i added this one, use read-only drives for reading and spare the writing drive's laser for writing. :#: but like they said, different strokes for different people. :#: ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted June 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 Well, you can't have the two drives you want to use for a disc to disc copy on the same ide cable, it'll leave the last few songs with anomolies and slow the process down... I put one hdd with one cd on each cable (bootable hdd primary master and burner sec. master, dvd primary slave, swap drive sec. slave) Never had a problem... In fact, I used to make coasters with the ROMs on the same cable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 static, my setup is exactly as yours, and I have no problems either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted June 10, 2003 Report Share Posted June 10, 2003 static, my setup is exactly as yours, and I have no problems either. i didnt say that there would be a problem. i think the article that i read said something about usage efficiency. :unsure: ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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