Mandrake Linux 9 with ASUS P4B533 motherboard and TDK 40/12/48 or Creative 12/10/32x IDE CD-ROM. CD-ROM starts with auto-boot, displays Mandrake install display and multiple initial steps including correctly finding IDE hard drives. Message then states that no CD-ROM found and asks for SCSI CD-ROM driver. CD-ROM is IDE connected. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Robert Robinson
(Suggestions/comments from David & Nico in another forum: 1) Make sure the cdrw is marked as a cd-rom in the bios/cmos. Not Auto. 2) CDRW drives are recognized as scsi under linux, so the ide-scsi module must be loaded. If the 1st trick doesn't work try this: a) Instead of hitting enter to continue,press F1 to get to the "prompt". b) type: linux hdb=ide-scsi (change hdb to match you system's configuration) c) Now hit Enter. Only kind of. The difficulty is that the "cdrecord" program at the root of most Linux CD recording software was written specifically for SCSI, and has never been *taught* how to handle IDE. Other programs, such as music or video playing or auto-mounting software handle an IDE CD-RW just fine for such uses. Also, ignore the kernel boot wackiness: that was one of the stupidest bits of bad advice ever written by a freeware author. Use an init script at boot time to say "gee, do I have any IDE CD drives? I should load up the ide-scsi driver!". This is because once the driver is loaded for the first IDE SCSI drive, it's available for *ALL* of them. And adding the loading to the LILO or grub setup just makes things more fragile there: this is perfectly effective as an after-boot-time function, especially if you compile kernels without loadable modules.)
