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Mistshadow:
I've searched and everything and can't seem to get a coherent answer about this anywhere.

How do I get Slackware to recognize my cdrw? As far it's concerned it's just not there. But the thing works fine with every other distro.   :confused:  

When I ran k3b setup it said I needed to enable scsi emulation for all drives, and it was grayed out. Well, I can't seem to get an answer on how to do that either, and besides, only the cdrw needs that; the other drive is just a dvd-rom.

And the kicker is, it did the same thing on the other computer; the cdrw on it is a 2-year old 24x10x40. This is Slack 9.1 we're talking about here. I just don't get it.

Now, on the one computer I'm going to have SuSE (and I know you're probably sick of me complaining about it not getting here fast enough; sowwy    ). But I really wouldn't mind having Slack on the other computer, with the older cdrw, just because I really liked Slack except for the cdrw problem.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

shuiend:
Well is the cd-rw a ide device? If it is what device is it? hda, hdb, hdc, jdd. I am thinking it will either be hdc or hdd. Once you figure that out you will need to open up your lilo.conf and add this to it.
append="hdx=ide-scsi"

change x to what ever ide device it is. info on it

Then run k3B Setup again if you need any more help just reply and i can offer some more assitence

Kintaro:
Yea, that man is right, slackware doesnt add that option to the kernel by defualt, so you have to. I does mention the option in the insall process however.

Kintaro:
oh and after you have added that to lilo.conf make sure you type "lilo" at the command line as root so its all cool.

Mistshadow:
Thanks!  

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