[Just back from a week away, and catching up with email. Apologies is this has already been adequately covered.] On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Darrell May wrote: > > On Sunday, January 14, Charlie wrote: > > > > Correct. Testing found that scsi emulation for CDROM drives was > > unreliable, and there is no reason that I know for enabling SCSI > > emulation. > > I have found most IDE CDRW 'How-To' documents recommend SCSI emulation. At > least I have not seen a 'How-To' that provides another solution. Do you > know of another way to activate and use an IDE CDRW under Linux. If you do, > please share and I will give it a try? Currently the e-smith server offers no support for CDRW, so I don't consider this is a significant issue. There is, in any case, an easy workaround; if you have an IDE CDRW which you wish to use SCSI emulation for, just add a line like this (IIRC) to /etc/modules.conf: options ide-cd ignore=hdx Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada
