> Again, I have another problem. How could I use the CD-RW and the
> CD-ROM in the same machine ? Both are IDE driven. So, what's
> suspicious to me. If I want to burn CDs I have to recompile my
> kernel without the IDE-CD support and with the SCSI generic and
> SCSI-emulation support (among others). So, after this could I use
> my simple CD-ROM like a SCSI device without problems ?
I've got my CD-ROM as hdc and my CD-RW is hdd. So, my lilo includes
the line append="hdd=ide-scsi" and my modules.conf file includes the
line 'alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi'
My system works quite well with /dev/hdc aliased to /dev/cdrom and I
burn CDs quite easily via cdrecord and its various front-ends. Also, if
I ever do want to mount my CD-RW, I have an entry in my fstab that
reads as follows:
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1
This is needed because the drive won't let me mount it as /dev/hdd
while it's being used as an ide-scsi device.
That's the long answer, as far as I was able to make my system work.
The short answer is: you can have ide-scsi support as a module rather
than recompiling, and it will coexist just fine with a normal IDE CD
drive. WHEW!
YMMV
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