On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:42:54 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 08 July 2001 17:23, Net Llama wrote:
> > My IDE CD burner at home is accessed as /dev/sr0.  The SCSI burner at
> > work can be mounted as /dev/sdd0 (very weird), but when i go to burn, i
> > don't even bother with the device, i just use the scsibus,target,lun
> > format in cdrecord. You could also use this for the IDE burners, BTW.
> 
> 
> One thing that's puzzling me in the SxS for IDE cd burners is the insistence 
> that you place 'ide-scsi' in the append statement of lilo.conf (or 
> equivalent) so that it 'comes up' when booting.
> 
> Is this genuinely necessary? I don't burn enough cd's to wattent checking it 
> out, so have left well alone. It seems that a modprobe ide-scsi in a boot 
> script would suffice?
> 

I believe that it was necessary prior to the 2.4.x kernels, but someone else will need 
to confirm.  I don't use the kernel parameter.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Gentoo_rc5 XFCE
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