Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 9/23/06, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> cdrdao is unhappy with my cdrom. >> >> What's the modprobe magic to make my cdrom behave as a SCSI device >> instead of an IDE device? >> >> I'm running Fedora Core 5. >> >> I remember something about having to install the "ide_scsi" and >> "sr_mod" modules, but that's where my recollection ends. >> > > I thought that one didn't have to do this any more, for moderatly > recent kernel versions. I know that my Fedora Core 3 system is > perfectly happy treating an ATAPI cd writer natively rather than > making it imitate SCSI. It seems to be addressed as /dev/hdc.
That's what I remember and observe, too. However, I believe you can still use ide-scsi approach via a boot option. Add hdc=ide-scsi (for an appropriate value of 'c') to your grub kernel line As I recall, that should load the ide-scsi module automatically and hide /dev/hdc underneath a scsi name. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
