Hello, I had a machine with one CD drive. Then I got a CDwriter on trial "Creative 4224".
When I connected the CD drive, xcdroast would not work. It would give me message like "...........scsi emulation not turned on .....". Kernel compilation failed. So I loaded Linux on a spare partition and xcdroast could now see the CDWriter.
I returned the CDwriter to my friend and then purchased Samsung 208 CDwriter. This CDwriter was sensed by the kernel directly. But xcdroast gave me the same message and the CDwriter was not seen on xcdroast. I could however see the CD's as /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom1
I then copied the useful files from the old partition and again loaded Linux.
Now CDwriter is seen with one issue (cd reader is not seen inxcdroast but that is a seperate issue).
Now, i believe that I have taken a longer route in installing the first CDwriter and then another longer route in getting the next cdwriter working. Can someone give a better way of tackling this issue of chang of cdwriters.
Anand