Michael Powell PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > The thing to do is to load the module "ide-scsi". It's automatic with
> > automatic module loading, provided you do the following:
> >
> > You need the kernel to know that it must skip the relevant device when it
> > registers the ide devices, here's the parameter: "hdd=ide-scsi". You pass
> > this parameter to the kernel at boot time.
[...]
> can't figure this out....
> I have mem-256M and hdd-ide-scsi in all instances of grub/menu.lst
> mem works fine but every re-boot I have to manually modprobe ide-scsi
> and run cdrecord --scanbus , then my CDR/W'er appears....weird
That's because you have to tell the kernel when it must insmod ide-scsi!
How do you want the poor kernel to guess that accessing the scsi bus is
made available through ide-scsi and not through any other scsi-prodiving
module! :-)
That's the reason of being for the option of /etc/modules.conf entitled
"alias scsi_hostadapter". So just set this parameter to "ide-scsi", and
magic when you perform an "cdrecord -scanbus", the low-level to the scsi
subsystem will enable load of the right module (we say thank you to kmod).
Think of it as the option "alias eth0" for your ethernet card.
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Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
