Hello
OK, so maybe i'm totally stupid, or maybe we need to fix this.
As many of you know - by seeing multiple pleas for help - that I have a
Smart & Friendly PCMCIA CR-RW drive that I've been trying to get Linux to work
with for months. Today, while preparing to throw it across the room -
inspiration finally hit. That little light clicked on. I had an epiphany.
(an apostrophy? whatever)
Used modprobe to UNLOAD the ide-scsi module, then reload it. Problem
before was the drive didn't exist when the module was loaded - as PCMCIA
services were loaded AFTER the the ide-scsi module was loaded. Running
cdrecord -scanbus would only show the internal DVD drive at scsi bus 0 addres
0,0,0. Now, by removing and reinsterting the module, i can see the DVD at
0,0,0 and the CD-RW drive at 0,0,1
I CAN'T be the only one with a removable CD-RW drive. The drive is properly
detected by setup. Heck, it even used to automatically append the
"hde=ide-scsi" to the appropraite line in grub! Should we make this module
unload and reload as part of the pcmcia startup script for a PCMCIA IDE CD
drive?
btw - asked this question in Mandrake Expert months ago.. should I log in as
an expert and answer myself?
V.
