On Tuesday 21 January 2003 08:28 pm, John Danielson, II wrote:
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> check your lilo.conf or boot config module in MCC for an append request
> for hdc, i.e.:
>
> hdc=ide-scsi

Before I started mucking around trying to make the system recognize the CD 
drives all that was in the append line of lilo.conf was:

"devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" 

which is correct. That's my Mitsumi CR-4804 TE CD-RW. Harddrake still claimed 
that the CD-ROM drive (Liteon LTN 403L) was a scsi drive. and showed the 
CD-RW not at all. Plus I kept seeing this or something like it in the logs:

Jan 21 13:04:02 localhost kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in 
request queue (0)
Jan 21 14:31:18 localhost last message repeated 14 times
Jan 21 14:42:38 localhost last message repeated 36 times
Jan 21 14:53:40 localhost last message repeated 36 times

which makes sense when the thing is mis-identified.
>
> if there, remove, reboot 2-3 times and see if reappears. If is from a
> boot module, reboot should trigger recreate, if not then it might stay
> away.

I chased every file I could think of all day trying to make things work 
correctly, then re-installed 9.1beta2 on a new 40 GB drive that had nothing 
on it at all. Same thing.

The addition of hdc=ide-cdrom (thanks Pixel!) seems to have improved things. 
I'll report back after I reboot again since I just installed the latest 
initscripts. My fingers are crossed.
>
> grub.menu ditto. grub can grab data from lilo.conf if invoked\linked in
> after lilo was used for boot loader.
>
> John.

Thanks John. 
-- 
Charlie
Edmonton,AB,Canada
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                -- Ed De Bono


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