On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Charley Sparks wrote:
> Is there a way to use a Parallel port HP under Linux ??
>
> Charley
I'm not aware of any software dedicated to this, if it's recognised as an
IDE drive already, ide-scsi may work.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon
> > Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 4:08 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] CD writing under Linux
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Steven wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > OK, Module Tutorial time for me:
> > > Why can the kernel load some modules automatically (and unload them when
> > > it's done), but others have to be pushed in by hand?
> >
> > Serveral reasons, there maybe more than one module that does slightly
> > different things like with sound and scsi, there are loads of scsi and
> > sound drivers if it's not configured in /etc/conf.modules correctly it
> > won't know what specific driver it needs.
> >
> > > Would I need a system.map, or other, file to use your method?
> >
> > Nope,
> >
> > > There is a CD Writer HowTo at
> > > http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/CD-Writing-2.html#ss2.1
> > >
> > > It states
> > > "With 2.2, you specify which device not to treat as a
> > IDE/ATAPI-device using
> > > the parameter ignore= while loading the ide-cd module. Example: use
> > > "modprobe ide-cd ignore=hdb", if your ATAPI-writer is hdb and
> > you want the
> > > ide-scsi-driver to treat hdb as a scsi-device (usally sr0).
> > There is no way
> > > to specify this on the kernel-commandline (like with 2.0)."
> >
> > Not relevent ide-cd is not a module in the supplied kernel it's built in.
> >
> > > This seems the opposite of what you have said, and you haven't
> > mentioned the
> > > 'ignore' option, is that because with the ide-scsi modules
> > loaded then the
> > > kernel won't need to load the ide-cdrom module?
> >
> > It's build in, all ide cd's will be accessable as standard ide devices
> > (eg. /dev/hdX) untill the ide-scsi module gets loaded. Not all ide cdroms
> > get along well w/ ide-scsi, you wind uo with funny things like 6 extra
> > cdrom devices.
> >
> >
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