Title: ide cdrom burner setup
Subject: You want to use your IDE CD writer with SuSE Linux.
Problem:
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You want to use your IDE CD writer with SuSE Linux.

Solution:
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Switch off the IDE support for the cd devices
To switch off the IDE support you have to login as root and start yast.
Choose "System administration" -> "Kernel- and Boot configuration" -> "LILO
configuration".
 
Add
hdX=ide-scsi
into the "Appendline". Replace the X with the device label of your
  cd devices.
  hda = primary master
  hdb = prmary slave
  hdc = secondary master
  hdd = secondary slave
To check which devices your cd drives are, search for ide in the file
  grep ide /var/log/boot.msg 
If you have already some entries in the appendline seperate them with a blank.
To use more than one IDE cd drive (not only writers) you have to make entries for each of them seperated by blanks.
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Load the scsi-emulation
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Open a console, the monitor with the shell icon or [ALT]+[F2] and 'xterm'.
If you are not logged in as user root type
  su -
and the password for the root user. Now open the file
  /etc/init.d/boot.local
(In versions <7.1 it is /sbin/init.d/boot.local) and add the following line at the end:
  /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
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That looks like this:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 1996 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.  All rights reserved.
#
# Author: Florian La Roche , 1996
#         Werner Fink , 1996
#         Burchard Steinbild , 1996
#
# /sbin/init.d/boot.local
#
# script with local commands to be executed from init on system startup
#
. /etc/rc.config
#
# Here you should add things, that should happen directly after booting
# before we're going to the first run level.
#
/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
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Correct settings for all IDE cd drives
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The kernel doesn't recognize the cd drives as IDE devices (now they are known as /dev/scd0 not as /dev/hdc).
To change the settings use these commands in the terminal (console)
  ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrecorder

This creates the new link. If you use a second cd drive with scsi emulation you also need
  ln -sf /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom

If your first drive is the cdrom and the second is the writer just change scd0 and scd1.
To mount the drives correctly edit the file /etc/fstab and replace the line for the cd writer 
(please create it if it does not exist already) with
  /dev/cdrecorder  /media/cdrecorder   auto   ro,noauto,user,exec  0  0

The line for the cd drive should look like
  /dev/cdrom       /media/cdrom        auto   ro,noauto,user,exec  0  0

For versions < 7.2 leave the /media and write only /cdrecorder and /cdrom.

The directories /media/cdrecorder and /media/cdrom (or without /media) should already exist,
if they do exist, create them with
  mkdir /media/cdrecorder
  mkdir /media/cdrom

If you use KDE please check the properties of your cd icons by clicking the right
mouse button. The device properties should be set to
  /dev/cdrecorder and /dev/cdrom.

After a reboot your system works like you are used to, but now you can use your cd
drives as scsi emulated devices and they are recognized by the cd writer programs.