George, Thanks that helped. In addtion to emerging hotplug. I loaded the following drivers in modules.autoload
ide-scsi sg sd_mod sr_mod I also put the ide-scsi kernel parameter for both my cdrw and zip drive. Thanks again. On Monday 03 February 2003 12:06 pm, George wrote: > I emerged hotplug, seemed to make things work, it shows up as a scsi device > like my cdrw, I have added this to my fstab. > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 > > George > > On Monday 03 February 2003 08:24 am, Felix Rodriguez wrote: > > At 01:18 PM 2/3/2003 +0000, Martyn Welch wrote: > > ><snip> > > > > > > > Thanks for the reply. I compiled ide-floppy support directly into the > > > > kernel instead of making it a module. I will try to recompile as a > > > > module instead to see what happens. > > > > > ><snip> > > > > > >In which case does dmesg show any mention of the drive (after boot)? > > > > > >It could already be setup as something else.. > > > > > >Martyn > > > > > >-- > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > I see it shows up as hdg at boot time. Actually I just did a quick google > > and came upon the official ide-floppy homepage. > > > > http://paul.bristow.free.fr/linux/ide-floppy.html > > > > One of the suggestions is to add the kernel parameter hdg=ide-floppy. > > There may be some problems if you also have ide-scsi as a kernel > > parameter for a cd burner. I will give this a shot and see what happens. > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Felix Rodriguez > > Programmer Analyst > > Phone: 860-685-3984 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
