On 08-Aug-99 Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I wonder if there is any smart way of setting up ATAPI connected
> CD-Writer without recompiling kernel. Does anyone suceeded with some
> boot option or something? Just curious.
Yes.
There are just two things you need to do to use SCSI emulation with the stock
Mandrake kernel. First put this in /etc/lilo.conf in the section for Linux:
append="hdX=ide-scsi"
Replace X with the correct letter for your CDR drive of course. That will stop
the kernel from loading an IDE driver for the drive. Run lilo to put the new
config in the MBR.
Then type 'modprobe ide-scsi' as root after booting, to load the ide-scsi
module. You should be all set now. If you have cdrecord installed, you can
type 'cdrecord -scanbus' to check and make sure it worked.
-Tom
