--- "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Net Llama wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> Hmmm. Then my system's broken. The other day the power went down
> long
> enough I had to power down the system. On power-up, my ide-scsi
> module
> did not load (not in the /etc/modules/default file, not sure why).
>
> Anyway, I found out because I tried to run xcdroast, and it cried
> about
> no SCSI devices. So I killed it, modprobed ide-scsi, then restarted
> xcdroast and burned several CDs. They all work fine. ?????
Which kernel version? I thinhk this may have changed in 2.4.x
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