On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Michael Hobgood wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have tried to compile my kernel. I need to disable IDE-ATAPI CD Rom
> support and add SCSI support to use my CDR drive. This is what happened:
> ...
This won't solve your kernel problems, but might be useful to
try next time around. Despite the CDR HowTo guides saying a kernel
recompilation is necessary, I have found it not to be so. (In my case
anyway, so maybe I lucked out and this rarely works)
My IDE CDR is on /dev/hdd and this all I had to do:
For my kernel parameters in /etc/lilo.conf add:
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
Run lilo and reboot.
To test if it worked:
As root, do cdrecord -scanbus
if it doesn't report your CDR, run
insmod ide-scsi
and try cdrecord -scanbus again,
if it worked that time,
add "insmod ide-scsi" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
if not, then I guess you'll have to do the kernel recompile thing.
This has worked for me on Mandrake 7.0, and 6.1 if I recall correctly.
- David Nordlund
