Roger on the "SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00" from dmesg. That is 
present.

Negatory on the "ide_setup: hdx=scsi". So, I'll go to work on that. 
Thanks. I'll keep all aprised.



Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:40:30PM -0700, tim cutler wrote:
> 
>>I'm trying to enable the CD-RW device on my system. I get this when 
>>executing "xcdroast" on RH7.1:
>>
>>"Failed to scan the SCSI-bus. Either no permission to access the generic 
>>scsi devices or no SCSI support enabled in the kernel. For ATAPI devices 
>>you have to install the SCSI-emulation first. Please see the 
>>CD-Writing-HOWTO ..."
>>
> 
> What kind of CD-R drive are you using? IDE or SCSI?
> 
> 
>>I have the /dev/sg1,2... devices with permissions set per 
>>"CD-Writing-HOWTO" (cwr------- root root ... /dev/sg1). So, I need a 
>>clue. How do I know SCSI support or the SCSI-emulation is present? Is a 
>>modern CD unit an ATAPI device?
>>
> 
> You'll know the SCSI subsystem is turned on in th kernel by checking the
> dmesg for a line that says something similar to "SCSI subsystem driver
> Revision: 1.00". Note that if this one isn't there, you'll either have to
> load the scsi and sg modules or recompile your kernel to provide support.
> 
> [1]You'll know SCSI emulation is turned on by checking the dmesg for a line
> that reads "ide_setup: hdx=scsi" and another line that says "ide-cd: passing
> drive hdx to ide-scsi emulation". If you don't see this line, try adding
> "hdx=scsi" to the kernel command line. If you still don't see these lines,
> you need to recompile your kernel.
> 
> Most CD units are ATAPI compliant -- especially if it's an IDE CD-R drive.
> Might want to doublecheck that it's supported on the cdrecord website[2]
> just to be sure, though.
> 
> [1] Replace hdx with the device name of your CD-R in IDE mode. Ex: if my
> CD-R was on /dev/hdc, then hdx = hdc
> 
> [2] http://www.cdrecord.org
> 
>