On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Joseph Markham wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since
> it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme
> mentioned the problem in LM7.1.
>
> Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working?
>
> My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard
> Pri Master: EIDE HDD
> Pri Slave: Zip drive EIDE
> Sec Master: LS-120 EIDE
> Sec Slave : CD-RW EIDE
>
> Many thanks to whoever knows how - I've installed LM 7.2 at least 10
> times to try and get around the problem to no avail.
>
>
>
Maybe this option is passed to the kernel by
lilo or grub(whatever you use): append=" hdc=ide-scsi" Check your
lilo.conf. also do a ls -l /dev/cd* and see what you get. If /dev/cdrom is
using scsi emulation you will get something like /dev/cdrom -> scd0 (cdrom
being a symlink to the secondary master scsi device). I have both my IDE
drives, my cdrom and burner scsi emulated and they work quite well and
it's better for burning on the fly i'm told and mine burns on the fly
flawlessly. One solution if your Cdrom is scsi emulated (/dev/cdrom ->
scd0) is to run modprobe ide-scsi. If ya don't want the drive to be scsi
emulated but it is(hence /dev/cdrom -> scd0) do the following as root: cd
/dev, then rm -f cdrom, then ln -s hdc cdrom(makes cdrom a symlink to
hdc(secondary master ide). then make any necessary changes to /etc/fstab=
make sure ya have /mnt/cdrom and its /dev/cdrom and get rid of the
append=" hdc=ide-scsi"line in /etc/lilo.conf or/boot/grub/menu.lst. That
should cover what you need to do.
--
Chad Y.
Registered Linux User #195191
Registered Linux Box #86749
