this is how my HP atapi drive is, Is there anything to do about the extra
devices?
Axalon wrote:
> 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.
