On 17 Jul 2003 16:08:17 +0200
Wouter Vanwalleghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Which reminds me:
> few weeks ago I was trying to get gentoo (tried both vanilla-kernel &
> gentoo-kernel) to recognize my firewire DVD/CDRW attached to a Dell
> laptop.
> 
> Only thing that did the trick was to put sbp2 in the
> /etc/modules.autoload and then put into /etc/conf.d/local.start:
> rmmod sbp2;
> sleep 3;
> modprobe sbp2;
> sleep 3;
> echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi;
> modprobe sr_mod;
> 
> Because when the module was inserted by the bootscripts (because of
> its presence in /etc/modules.autoload), it always resulted in sth.
> along the lines of "sbp2: Error logging into SBP2-device - login
> failed".
> 
> Anybody know of a better trick?

I use the hotplug service which seems to handle my firewire drive
DVD/CDRW drive correctly.

# emerge hotplug
# rc-update add hotplug default
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