Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:18:19 -0400
This is the WalMart special. There may be no scsi devices but there are scsi drivers loaded:
lsmod | grep scsi:
ide-scsi 7696 1
scsi_mod 53420 5 [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage sd_mod]
ide-mod 153700 4 [ide-cd ide-scsi ide-disk ide-probe-mod]
I have the bad feeling that scsi drivers are being used for various tasks, not really for scsi devices scsi. This must be why you need initrd with this kernel.
Tne kernel (also 2.4.20) that it comes preinstalled has this in /lib/modules/kernel/drivers/scsi: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jun 22 15:22 aic7xxx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127076 Jun 19 17:40 aic7xxx_old.o And, int aic7xx, this: aic7xxx.o In modules.dep, this is this entry: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o
There must be a reason for this. I'd like to find out.
It is my understanding that the cdrom drives need to be addressed as scsi devices. To accomplish this, a software shim is put in place to translate ide type calls to scsi calls. (That would be the ide-scsi thing.) Please bear in mind that my understanding is small...
-- Alma
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