I just got my CD-RW working with ID-SCSI, finally figured out how LILO works!
2 things I read while getting this up:
1) YOu may need to tell the SCI driver not to "steal" your CD-RW, Here is the
clip from where I read that:
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To have the modules loaded, you should either list them in a configuration
file like /etc/modules or run the daemons kerneld or kmod, which both load the
required modules automatically for you when the kernel sees a needs for them.
To make your life with modules easier, you can add the following lines to
/etc/conf.modules:
options ide-cd ignore=hdb # if /dev/hdb is your CD-writer
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2) I read that older kernels may not release a device to scsi emulation if they
are recognized as an ATAPI decice. The only listed solution to this is
upgrading the Kernel.
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Special hints up to kernel version 2.2.9
Owners of ATAPI CD-writers beware: if your kernel detects your writer as an ATAPI
device during system startup, you have no
chance of getting it to work as a CD-writer under Linux. Once the IDE/ATAPI driver
grabs the device, the SCSI driver (on the top
of the host adaptor emulation) can no longer do so. Please recompile a kernel with the
CD-ROM stuff as a module like it is shown in
the table above.
With 2.2 and above, you can control the greediness of the ide-cd driver with the
parameter "ignore=". If you enable this, the driver
won't grab the specified device, so it will be available when the SCSI host adaptor
emulation is activated. 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 [usually sr0]. There is
no way to specify this on the kernel commandline (like in 2.0).
Up to kernel version 2.2.9, don't enable CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN ('probe for multiple
luns') and ide-scsi support at the same
time, there is an ide-scsi bug that prevents this.
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> Happy Y2K Everyone! >
> Just r'cd as a gift a Zip CD R-W. I thought I had
> it configured right but the program kept exiting
> after entering any command. Here is what I did....
>
> I put "hdc=ide-scsi" to my already existing "append"
> line for my 96MB RAM, and ran /sbin/lilo
>
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.local I added at the end -
>
> /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
>
> /sbin/modprobe sg
>
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Eric Aksomitis {On Linux}
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