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- This was taken out of mails from From: Dave Cohen <dcohen@richmond.infi.net>
- and From: Gadi Oxman <gadio@netvision.net.il>
- (slightly modified marked ***JS *** except typo corrects)
-
- It is only valid for Linux !
-
- As all actual Linux versions support ATAPI support for cdrecord,
- I removed the patch section. If you are running a Linux version
- that does not support ATAPI SCSI command transport, please upgrade.
-
- The basic driver design in Solaris would also allow to use ATAPI
- drives but unfortunately, Sun made a mistake in the mid-level design.
- If you want to use ATAPI drives with Solaris, ask Sun why they don't
- support SCSI passthrough to IDE although they are using a common driver
- concept.
-
- Please use cdrecord-1.6 final or later (if available), it includes the
- modifications needed for ATAPI drives and is still working with other
- SCSI drives. Older revisions of cdrecord do not support ATAPI drives.
-
- If you are using Linux Kernel version prior to 2.1.73 or prior to
- 2.0.35, please upgrade before you try to compile and use cdrecord.
-
- In any case, you need to configure a kernel with ATAPI/SCSI hostadapter
- emulation. Read carefully the following instructions:
-
- In any case, you need to disable generic IDE/ATAPI CDROM support in
- order to make ATAPI SCSI emulation working.
-
- Many people ask why I use ATAPI-SCSI emulation.
-
- The use of the naming convention "ATAPI-SCSI emulation" is a
- little bit misleading. It should rather be called:
- "SCSI host adapter emulation"
-
- The ATAPI standard describes method of sending SCSI commands over IDE
- with some small limitations to the "real" SCSI standard.
- For this reason ATAPI-SCSI emulation is the native method of
- supporting ATAPI devices.
-
- If you have problems to talk to the device when it is jumpered as "slave"
- try to use it as "master". If you connect a hard disk to the same IDE
- cable as the CD writer or if you try to read/write data from another drive
- that is connected to the same IDE cable as the CD writer you may get
- problems too.
-
- NOTICE:
-
- With the newer 2.1.x or 2.2.x kernels it seems to be possible to run
- SCSI/ATAPI hostadapter emulation and generic IDE at the same time by
- selectively telling the kernel what to use for which drive. However,
- this would not be needed if the Linux SCSI CD-ROM driver would be more
- up to date and supports standard conforming drives.
-
- J÷rg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
-
- --------------------------------------------------
- Here is a hint from Alan Brown <alanb@manawatu.gen.nz>:
-
- To allow ATAPI cd and ide-scsi support on the same machine, add
- `hd<x>=ide-scsi` to the lilo.conf append entry, or use
- `hd<x>=ide-scsi` at the bootup lilo prompt.
-
- I have my HP-7200 RW drive as the primary drive on the second IDE
- bus, so the statement used is "hdc=ide-scsi"
-
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- Hope that the following is helpful to you.
-
- I recently purchased a HP-7110i CD-RW, which is the U.S. only version of
- what you have. The HP 7100 and 7110 CD rewritables use the ATAPI
- standard. Originally, the drives were not supported under Linux (due to
- some inconsistencies with SCSI translations between the kernel and the
- CD), but that problem has just recently been fixed. There are some kernel
- and cdrecord patches that have been made to support this device that have
- yet to be officially incorporated into cdwrite and the kernel. In order to
- get your drive supported under Linux, you will have to do the following:
-
- 1. Get the proper version of cdrecord.
-
- As of this writing, I am just getting ready to test Joerg's new cdrecord.
- I am currently operational on cdrecord-1.5, so I know that works, and I
- have attached patches for that version.
-
- If you are in a hurry, you can download ver. 1.5, apply patches, and
- rock-n-roll. You may want to wait, though. Up to you ;). The version with
- ATAPI support is cdrecord-1.6alpha5. I'm not sure if the current kernel
- patches are valid for this version, but i'll know soon enough.
- **** They are valid **** JS
-
- BTW, the new version of xcdroast now supports cdrecord - this version
- is in beta testing, too (currently uses cdrecord-1.5 but cdrecord-1.6a5
- should work with the actual xcdroast too).
-
- 2. Upgrade to kernel version 2.0.31
-
- IDE/SCSI translation was first added in this kernel. Because your CD-RW is
- an ATAPI device, it will support SCSI command sets. The translation
- allows you to map the device as a SCSI generic device. This will allow
- cdrecord to recognize it as a SCSI device.
- **** 2.0.31 still needs patches, get 2.0.35 or later **** JS
-
- 3. Get the patches and apply them
-
- Attached find kernel patches for kernel sources ide.h and ide-scsi.c, and
- cdrecord source scsi_cdr.c (version 1.5 only).
- **** Get cdrecord-1.6 or later **** JS
-
- 3. Recompile kernel with SCSI emulation support
-
- If you do a "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig", select SCSI emulation
- under the category "Floppy, IDE, and other block devices".
-
- WARNING:
- Do not install SCSI support as a module - there is a bug in the makefile
- structure that will cause the compile to fail. Compile directly into the
- kernel.
-
- 4. WARNING: Disable generic IDE/ATAPI support *** JS ***
-
- If you don't do this, the SCSI emulation will not work *** JS ***
-
- 5. This is important too:
- You also need to enable SCSI and SCSI generic support *** JS ***
-
- 6. Make sure that /dev/sg* exists.
- If thet are missing, create them.
-
- Dave Cohen
- dcohen@richmond.infi.net
- (Patch instructions below)
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- From: Danilo Fiorenzano <shade@juliet.gppsd.ab.ca>
-
- Anyway, here's what I did, using kernel version 2.0.33 I believe this
- is the proper way to get an HP-7100i to work (and as far as I can tell,
- any other IDE CD-writer unit):
-
- 1) patch the kernel as described by README.ATAPI
-
- 2) save your current kernel config to an alternate file, then run
- "make mrproper"
-
- 3) run 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig', then choose "load config
- from alternate file" to restore the original configuration
-
- 4) In "Floppy, IDE and other block devices", disable "IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM
- support" and enable instead "scsi emulation"
-
- 5) in "SCSI support" enable "SCSI support", "SCSI CD-ROM support" and
- "SCSI generic support", everything directly in the kernel.
-
- 6) compile, install kernel/modules, reboot. Now, if everything went
- fine, your CDROM units should show up with a message like:
- "hdb: HP CD-Writer+ 7100, ATAPI CDROM drive - enabling SCSI emulation"
-
- 7) run "cdrecord -scanbus" to make sure cdrecord can see the unit and
- talk to it. The end.
-
- Don't forget that now -all- of your CD drives are seen as -SCSI- units
- by all programs (/dev/scd0 etc.), so you might want to relink
- /dev/cdrom to the proper scd<n> in order to get xcdplay or whatever to
- work again.
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- NOTE:
-
- 1) Actual cdrecord releases support ATAPI
-
- 2) Linux 2.0.35 or Linux 2.1.73 or later include ATAPI support
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- From whampton@staffnet.com Fri Jan 14 05:21:34 2000
- From: "W. Wade, Hampton IV" <whampton@staffnet.com>
-
- You may wish to include/append these notes to your ATAPI notes....
-
- I have my 4X Acer CD-R/RW ATAPI drive working with Linux. My platform
- is
- RedHat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.14. My first ATAPI CD device is a DVD with
- the second
- the CD-R. I made the following changes:
-
- Steps:
-
- 1. Identify which device is the CD-R -- in my case the fourth ATAPI
- device, /dev/hdd.
-
- 2. Compile the kernel to include ATAPI CDROM and SCSI emulation:
-
- Under the block devices menu:
- Y or M Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
- Y or M SCSI emulation
-
- 3. Build and install the upgraded kernel.
-
- 4. If you selected modules, add them to the /etc/conf.modules file.
-
- 5. In the /etc/lilo.conf file add an append line for ide-scsi, in my
- case:
- append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
-
- 6. Reboot to the new kernel and make sure the ide-scsi module is loaded
-
- /sbin/lsmod | grep ide-scsi
-
- 7. Make a link from the proper SCSI device to a symbolic, e.g.,
- /dev/cdrom:
- In my case the DVD is the first CD, hence appears as /dev/scd0 to
- scd7
- (cat /proc/scsi/scsi to get a full list of devices -- the first
- CD-ROM will
- appear as scd0, etc.) With the current ATAPI-SCSI module, each CD
-
- device appears as 8 SCSI devices (different logical units). If
- you have
- two devices, like I do, you may have to make a node for the second
- device.
- In my case I had to make scd8:
-
- cd /dev
- mknod scd8 b 11 8
-
- Then make links, in my case:
-
- ln -s scd0 cdrom
- ln -s scd8 cdr
-
- Note, many CD-ROM player programs expect the audio CD drive to
- be located at /dev/cdrom (xplaycd, etc.), hence this link is
- recommended.
-
- If you try to use /dev/hdc (or wherever your CD or CD-R is)
- after loading
- the ide-scsi module, you may not be able to mount CD's or play
- audio
- discs -- you have to use the new SCSI names for the device.
-
- 8. Fix your /etc/fstab file to mount the /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdr
-
-
- /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
- From: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>
-
- Situation:
- Linux: Kernel 2.2.15 (Debian package kernel-image-2.2.15)
- Distribution: Debian Potato (deep freeze), i386
- Devices: one CDRW-Writer, one CDROM-drive, both ATAPI
-
- 1. Become root, try "grep hd.: /var/log/kern.log" to find out where your
- ATAPI-devices are connected to (hd?-names).
- 2. Edit your boot configuration file, eg. /etc/lilo.conf if you use
- lilo or the batch-file if you boot via loadlin.
- 3. Find a line where you can append additional kernel parameters, eg.
- "append=" in lilo.conf or the loadlin-line in the batch file.
- 4. Append sth. like this: "hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1"
- The hdX-parameters defines devices that should be mapped to SCSI
- latter. You may do it with non-writers too, since the emulation layer
- is almost complete, or let them out so the devices will use their
- native drivers.
- 5. Save the file, reinstall the bootloader (ie. running "/sbin/lilo")
- 6. Call "modconf", load "sg" and "ide-scsi" from the SCSI-section
- 7. Reboot Debian, watch while booting, you should see a line like this
- "Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0".
- Your old ATAPI devices virtually don't exist any longer, use ther
- SCSI equivalents instead.
- 8. Become root, setup devices:
- cd /dev
- MAKEDEV sg scd
- ln -s scd0 cdrom # NOTE: or cdrw, first check which drive is here
- ln -s scd1 cdrw # NOTE: see above, maybe cdrom
- Check the new SCSI settings:
- cdrecord -scanbus
- Setup cdrecord's environment - edit /etc/default/cdrecord:
- CDR_DEVICE=cdrw
- cdrw=1,0,0 4 8m
- cdrom=1,2,0 0 0m
- Input the right values, the fields are described in the manpage
- of cdrecord. Alternatively, you may use this values as
- cdrecord-parameter or take a frontend with an own configuration
- scheme, then you don't need to modify /etc/default/cdrecord.
- 9. It's done! Insert a CD and try "cdrecord -v -toc"
-