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To use an internal IDE CD burner you need to boot
appending hdc=ide-scsi.  I changed it to sr0=ide-scsi

All CD burners are treated as scsi, even if IDE or USB.

After booting, load modules for scsi and USB
or use a kernel with built-in USB and SCSI drivers
(which I posted as bzlafbsu.431 - also supports fb, cb
and maybe sb -- about 800K).

Then

insmod ide-cd ignore=sr0
insmod ide-scsi
insmod usb-storage

(For IDE drives ignore=hdc and you don't need USB-storage)
(For SCSI drives, you don't need these three modules).

USB-storage finds sr0.

cdrecord  -scanbus   worked
A dummy run with cdrecord worked.

(Use SW81 not SW71 cdrecord and readcd to avoid
problems with copyright protection)..

********************A real burn did not work. *************

cdrecord:  Input/output error.  start/stop unit:  scsi sendcmd
status 0x2  Not ready
Page full of error messages and it exits.  A reboot and retry
did not fix this (sometimes things need resetting after dummy run).

The burner worked with Puppy Linux, with the drivers as modules.
I have used cdrecord with internal and external SCSI and internal IDE 
burners.

What am I missing?  Does sr0 need to be recognized during boot (maybe 
using initrd.gz) for sr0=ide-scsi to work?

Someone with FreeBSD got similar error messages.

I have a nice lightweight 133Mhz Hitachi laptop that I use to download 
files at the library, with which I had hoped to burn CDs with this burner 
using BL (32MB memory won't run Puppy).  But it won't even insmod sr_mod.o 
- complains about DMA. The 250MHz Toshiba loads the modules but won't 
burn.  I have not tried a desktop.


Sindi Keesan