Thanks James, added the 'nomount' option to the lilo and it now works fine.
I wonder if 8.2 will be more intelligent and revert to 8.0 logic for this? Dave. On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:15:57 -0800 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:48:27 -0500 > David Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David, > > You shouldn't need to rebuild the kernel if the dev is now created. I've got an >ide-scsi cdrw in my box and in order to get the writes to work correctly I had to >change append devfs=mount to append devfs=nomount. Once I did it started to burn >correctly and in fact I haven't had a bad burn (that wasn't by my own foobar) since. >Maybe this will work with the colorado as well. This by the way is one of the >biggest differences between the 8.0 and 8.1 for causing headaches. (IMHO) > > James > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have just had to rebuild a server and decided to use 8.1. This box previously >ran 8.0 with a HP Colorado IDE 14 Gb tape unit. This worked great. > > > > With the 8.1 installed there was no /dev/st0, I assumed that for whatever reason, >ide-scsi was not installed (8.0 was automatically installed). I have looked about the >forums and some suggest that the kernel needs to be rebuilt. Other suggestions appear >to add a line to lilo.conf, hdd=ide-scsi. This instance hda is the boot device and >hdd in the tape unit. Anyway, with the line added to lilo.conf the /dev/st0 now >exists but cannot write to the device using normal methods. I guess I am missing >something. > > > > I really would not like to rebuild the kernel unless I have no choice (never done >it before) because the box is a P120, so it could take a while. > > > > Any suggestions would be great! > > > > > > DMESG => 'dmesg|grep hd' > > > > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi ro root=301 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount > > ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio > > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX20.4A, ATA DISK drive > > hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive > > hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) > > hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > > > Thanks Dave. > > > > > >
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