Hello

Madhusudan Singh (<spammers-go-here@spam.invalid>) wrote:

> I have the following CDRW/DVD combo drive :
>
> §» cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004

You appear to be using cdrecord from testing or unstable. However I do
not know what kernel you use.

> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'QSI ' 'CDRW/DVD SBW242U' 'UU30' Removable
> [...]
>
> And I do have hdc=ide-scsi in my /boot/grub/menu.lst (appended to the
> kernel line).

If you use kernel 2.6, you should stop using ide-scsi emulation
completely, because there is absolutely no need for it. Using the ide
cd driver for writing and reading works just fine for me.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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