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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: cce.zizkov AT volny.cz, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] USB kernel and CD burning
  • Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:15:28 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Christof Lange wrote:

Hi Sindi,

finally I succeeded to create a clean initrd.gz file and all USB
devices can be mounted with it. So I moved to the other computer
in order to test CD burning.

There, however, I was not even able to mount the CD for reading.
Unfortunately some changes to the file system on the hard
disk, had the effect that even in the SW 7.1 installation the
CD-ROM mounting completely ceased to work.


Burning CDs with the new kernel does not work either. I tried to
make the file system on the RAM disk as similar as possible to the
one on the hard disk partition, and with the 2.2.16 burning still
works. So I am almost sure that the problem is in the l8 kernel.

When I try to run cdrecord with your kernel I get the messages:

Cannot open /dev/pg0

Cannnot open /dev/pg*
Cannot open SCSI driver

I am using the cdrecord from Slackware 8.1 (or maybe it is the cdread from Slackware 8.1 - I needed something newer to deal with encrypted music CDs). They work with kernel 2.2.16 and my 2.4.31 sm kernel, for me.

Try my sm and my 2.2.26 my sb kernel for burning CDs (not USB). If those work, I will add whatever they have that l8 might be missing for burning CDs.

I know very little about CD burning, just what I learned from you. What is /dev/pg0? Ask on the list for more help and then I will be happy to modify my l8 kernel to add more modules or whatever it needs.


Here are the modules which the 2.2.16 kernel needs to burn CD:

insmod ide-cd

Built into the l8 kernel, I think. Try without this module and just insert the following ones. If it needs the module, you will not be able to mount CDs without it. Sometimes inserting a module when it is already
in the kernel causes a crash.

#ignore=hdc
insmod scsi_mod
insmod sg
insmod sr_mod
insmod loop
insmod ide-scsi

These should all be supported in l8 kernel.

I do not insmod loop to burn CDs, just to mount a loop filesystem.

IIRC 2.2.16 is the bare kernel from Slackware 7.1. Its size is
735763 bytes.

Compare the config for that with my l8, in the areas of the above modules.

Does David's 2.4.31 kernel work to burn CDs? Use HIS modules, not mine, they are not interchangeable because he compiled using a different glibc.

We will figure this out eventually.
I have to do a few other things first today.

Christof

Sindi




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