In my case, I had a similar problem with my dvd (hdd) and ading in the lilo append line: hdd=ide-cd now is runing fine.
El Mi� 22 Ene 2003 18:27, John Danielson, II escribi�: > Charlie wrote: > >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. > > Yes, this does make sense this way. Plus, I learn things this way, too > (make suggestions given my level of knowledge, see why things work > different by looking at replies and taking correction and amplification > into account) ... :) Thanks. > > >>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. > > If I think I can contrib, will try. Welcome for what little I could do. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biolog�a Vegetal Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo E-30100 Murcia Espa�a (Spain)
