Chris Searle

This is a shortened version of udev and DVD/CD RW under debian unstable for non-udev systems.

To get CD and DVD burning running under debian on a 2.6.x kernel

Under 2.6 ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) is deprecated. It's recommended to use ide-cd instead.

So - you need to make sure you're using ide-cd. Any references to ide-scsi need to be removed from lilo (and grub if that required the references).

Make sure that ide-cd is loaded (modprobe ide-cd) - you may want to add it to /etc/modules

Now - make sure that your /dev directory is correctly set up

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To get CD and DVD burning running under debian unstable on a 2.6.x kernel

Under 2.6 ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) is deprecated. It's recommended to use ide-cd instead. Using ide-cd under debian will also correctly set up sysfs details to help you get udev to auto-create the correct devices.

So - first make sure you're using ide-cd. This means - make sure you remove ide-scsi from lilo.conf (not sure about grub), and then check /etc/modules. It should contain the line ide-cd and not ide-scsi.

Secondly, the udev packages have done the work required to get udev to recognise the devices.

udev processes the rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d in alphanumeric order. If you use the non-devfs naming style (which I prefer) the file /etc/udev/udev.rules is symlinked into /etc/udev/rules.d.

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