I just modularized ide-cd floppy. I have to say... I can't tell the difference in use of the dvd/cdrom drive between ide-cd and ide-scsi. I had to change my fstab to /dev/cdrom0 (for /dev/hdb) and that was the only difference. Since I have an older cooker, those changes may have already been made. Ide-cd is loaded by default, how can I change that?
Is there much difference in use between ide-cd and ide-scsi? If not, maybe it should be considered to modularize and default to ide-scsi in the default installation. That would resolve a lot of issues with laptops that have modular bays. One other question. Is there a way to get the system to recognize a floppy or cdrw module if it is popped out and replaced while the system is up or in suspend mode? Maybe part of suspend would unmount floppy and cd/dvd/cdrw drives and modules, and recheck for what devices are in. Obviously this is post-8.2 material but this could be a step in the right direction of making linux even more flexible for laptops than other os's! --- Doug McClendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SI Reasoning wrote: > > >How would you handle 1 cdrom/dvd ide-cd and 1 cdrw > >ide-scsi after boot if I want both? > > > Good question :) > > I haven't exhaustively looked through the > docs/source to find out if and > how it is possible to have both modules loaded, > telling each module to > look at different devices. *Maybe* its something as > easy as > > modprobe ide-cd hdd=ide-scsi > modprobe ide-scsi > > hdd would be used by ide-scsi, all the rest by > ide-cd > > Since the driver recognizes the arg on the kernel > comline, maybe it > works there as well. > > If that doesn't work (and in fact is an absent > ability), one option is > to let the cdrom/dvd > be handled by the ide-scsi driver. If you load > sr_mod (the scsi cdrom > module) after the > ide-scsi module, you should see all of your ide > cdrom/cdrw/dvd drives > come up as > scsi cdrom drives (old /dev/scdX, now > /dev/cdroms/cdromX linked to I > forget where ../scd). > > The only downside to this is that the > ide-scsi+sr_mod driver may be less > efficient or > less reliable than the desired ide-cd driver (just > guessing). > > -dmc > > > > ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. -FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
