Re: [edlug] [DVDCD] Problems & DVB

[Alistair K Phipps <edlug1@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

On 03 May 2004 19:15:14 +0100
Keith W Wyse <keithwwyse@xxx.xxx.xxx> wrote:

> tell - another story, over whisky) and I'd like to back up my current
> data before fiddling with configurations and distributions, hence I'd
> like to write it to cd. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to set up the
> parts needed to achieve this. As I say I realise that I need to use
> ide-scsi, but after that I'm as a loss. Is there some alias between the
> drive and device?

Actually, at least if you're using kernel 2.6, you no longer have to
use ide-scsi.  In fact I think I remember reading somewhere that
ide-scsi is now deprecated, though some apps still don't like writing
direct to the IDE device.

With cdrdao you can use --device /dev/cdrom (where /dev/cdrom is a
symlink to /dev/hdc or wherever your CD writer is on).  With cdrecord
you can use a device of ATAPI:0,0,0.  I use xcdroast as a front end
and cdrecord-prodvd (with license key hassles) to write DVDs, and it
all works nicely without ide-scsi.  I used to use ide-scsi but it
really was such a pain to set up (compiling stuff into the kernel...
LILO boot parameters...) that I just switched to using the ATAPI
devices with 2.6.

Note this is for writing ISO 9660 filesystems.  I haven't tried UDF
(packet writing).

If you really want to use ide-scsi (or are using kernel 2.4, where I
think you still have to use ide-scsi) then I'm sure one of the
references you've already been given will help.  But the gist is (from
memory, so this might not be totally right), compile in ide-scsi
support, scsi generic support, scsi cdrom support into your kernel.
Add the boot parameter "hdc=ide-scsi" in LILO ("append"...).  Load the
various modules at boot.  Hopefully your CDROM/writer will now be
accessible as /dev/scd0.  Change the /dev/cdrom symlink to point to
this.  Use "device=0,0,0" with cdrdao and cdrecord.

BTW, stock kernel 2.6 has DVB drivers that work nicely, at least for
me.

CONFIG_DVB=y, CONFIG_DVB_CORE=y, CONFIG_DVB_GRUNDIG_29504_401=m,
CONFIG_DVB_BUDGET=m are all that are required for my Hauppauge Nova-T
PCI.

HTH,

Alistair
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