On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, at 4:43pm, Bill Freeman wrote: > It has an ATA CDR on it that seems to correctly get serviced by, among > other things, ide-scsi, which I presume acts as the (pseudo) host adapter > for the connection.
Yes. You will need that to use it as a CDR, which is only supported via IDE SCSI emulation. > Kudzu (or whatever checks "for new hardware") didn't notice, nor did the > hardware browser. No, they wouldn't. Kudzu can only detect PCI and ISA PnP cards, of which the AHA-1542 is neither. The only way to "detect" a traditional ISA card like the AHA-1542 is by scanning for ROM strings or probing hardware registers. And the hardware browser, AFAIK, only tells you about what hardware is already configured and running in your system. > ide-scsi seems to have been loaded at boot time, so when mount goes > looking for /dev/sda4, it looks for it on that controller, rather than > loading scsi_hostadapter. Correct. The kernel sees a SCSI host adapter already present, and does not try to auto-load another one. > For now I've added a modprobe scsi_hostadapter to rc.local. I suppose I > could fool with the 'boot' tag in modules.conf. I'd be pleased to hear > other people's ideas of the right way to do it. I think that is the best way to do it. In my opinion, SCSI drivers aren't really something that you want dynamically loading and unloading, anyway. SCSI initialization is a slow and complicated process. Better to have it done once at boot, and stay running. > Also, I'm interested to know how ide-scsi gets loaded, given that the CD > drive doesn't get mounted as part of the boot process (as far as I know). Since you mention Kudzu, I assume you are running a Red Hat system. Check /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, which does something with ide-scsi, IIRC. As I said, you are going to need it anyway, for CD recording. Hope this helps, -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
