linux newbie questions (redhat 8.0)

[Deceiver]

I have RedHat 8.0 up and running for a little while now. I got completely got rid of windows 2k. I have been unable to burn or rip a cd using linux. Whenever I try, it looks like something is going wrong because it basically goes really slow without any progress. I basically have RedHat 8.0 installed, and my system spec is in my profile, but I'm using a Pioneer 10X DVD and Plextor 12/10/32A. I imagine both are using Atapi. I read somewhere about using a SCSI emulation, but I'm unsure of how to do this, or whether I need to do this. I'd really like to be able to rip and burn cds.

Also I have two 30 GB drives that I had in a RAID array under Windows. I had problems setting it up under RedHat, so I just unraided them and installed. How can I tell if both drives are mounted? Will they be just one big partition?

Thanks for the help,
Jason

 

[Panther505]

Both drives are mounted:

mount (from cli) result will be something like this:

lavigne@linux:~> mount
/dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw)(my Primary HDD on IDE1
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hdb1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1)
shmfs on /dev/shm type shm (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
//192.168.1.55/info on /home/lavigne/net/info type smbfs (0)
//192.168.1.55/lavigne on /home/lavigne/net/lavigne type smbfs (0)
//192.168.1.55/stuff on /home/lavigne/net/stuff type smbfs (0)
//192.168.1.55/music on /home/lavigne/net/music type smbfs (0)
lavigne@linux:~>


you will be looking for something similar to what I have in bold with the following information:
Primary on IDE1 --> hda
Slave on IDE1 --> hdb
Primary on IDE2 --> hdc
Slave on IDE2 --> hdd

if you are on a Highpoint or other Raid controller then you will probably see hde/hdf/hdg/hdh


Ripping man dd- probably not exactly what you are looking for but otherwise Link

Burning man cdrecord and once again a Link

A little time spent at the Linux Documentation Project Link on the HowTo pages will put you in the right direction as well as a look at the FAQ here on Anandtech.

Panther505