>
> maybe all your menu-system was broken.
Yes that was the case, but I don't know why it happened.
> > - Compile the driver for IDE CD-ROM drives as module so that the driver
> > can be unloaded and replaced by the IDE-SCSI emulation. So IDE
> > CD-writers can be used without recompiling the kernel.
>
> This is not the good solution. IDE CDROM and CD-Writers can co-exist with
> different drivers.
>
> Such lines should do the trick:
>
> options ide-cd ignore=hdb
>
This only works when ide-cd is a module and therefore I suggested the
change in the kernel configuration. I tested using ide-cd as module with
Conectiva Linux 5.0 and Mandrake 7.0 it works perfectly.
> See the CD-Writing howto.
>
Yes, I read it and found an alternative method putting a line
append="hdb=ide-scsi"
into the /etc/lilo.conf which I tested on a SuSE 6.1 machine (on my
Mandrake and Conectiva machine I already compiled the kernel with
ide-cd.o as module). It works without problems and so allows using IDE
burners without recompiling the kernel. The advantage of having a
distribution with ide-cd.o as module is that one could modify kudzu for
automatically recognizing a CD burner (loading ide-scsi and afterwards
giving 'cdrecord -scanbus' and 'cdrecord -dev x,y,z -checkdrive' for
every drive found, see 'man cdrecord') and loading the correct drivers.
So even beginners can burn (with X-CD-Roast 0.96ex2 or 0.98). The
lilo.conf solution needs a reboot and so is unsuitable for kudzu. It's
only good for manual configuration which is not nice for beginners and
except CD-burning on IDE writers Mandrake is a beginner-friendly Linux,
why not also with these devices?
Till
