On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 10:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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?
>
> It is neccesary. Linux needs to see the IDE burner as SCSI from init.
> You can't tell the kernel that what was once IDE is now SCSI, or it will
> never recognize it as SCSI, and you'll never be able to use it as such.
> As proof, try finding the IDE burner under /proc/scsi if you never
> loaded it as such in LILO or GRUB.
>
I've never burned cdroms prior to 2.4.x kernels, and I've never put anything in the
kernel line, just modprobe (or its equivalent in bootup files) ide-scsi, and it works
just fine.
--
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Gentoo_rc5 XFCE
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