On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
>
> On 26-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> You *DON'T* need to recompile the kernel. I use a CD Writer with the
> >> standard Mandrake kernel.
> >>
> >> 1)Add this to your /etc/lilo.conf:
> >> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
> >>
> >> 2)Reboot
> >>
> >> 3)Then, you can simply do a "modprobe ide-scsi", and voila! You can add
> >> the modprobe in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
> >>
> >> I remember Axalon had a sexier solution, but I can't quite remember it...
> >
> > alias block-major-11 ide-scsi
> > has an inherent flaw though, doesn't get loaded untill you try and access
> > the cd, i forgot what it caused problems with. Theres also something like
> > alias scsi_hostadapter0 ide-scsi, but that never did work on my system
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi works okay for me--usually. Sometimes it won't
> work and I'll have to modprobe (no idea why), but usually it works.
>
> Where does one get a list of the 'block-major-#' devices? i.e. How would I know
> what block-major-11 is supposed to refer to?
>
>
> -Tom
>
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
