On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:55, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:20 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote:
> > >> Ok I concede..... how I do to get this dangbusted
> > >> stupid cd recorder to work???
> > >> Is there a kludge or a hack??
> > >> Please just tell me what to type and I will do it.
> > >> I am using mandrake 7.0-2
> > >
> > > Yes, I'm afraid there is a kludge with 7.0, solved with 7.1 and
> > > perfected with 7.2. there was a fix/tutorial on Mandrakes web
> > > page, but it's no longer there. Best I can remember it had to do
> > > with the needed "append=ide-scsi" linked wrong.....
> >
> > The line would be : append="hdx=ide-scsi" added to the lilo.conf
> > I believe. I will go through my
> > notes at home and see if I can confirm the location, unless someone
> > else can jump in here and confirm or
> > correct.
>
> Correct, but there was an additional problem with 7.0. IIRC, even
> tho the ide-scsi line was properly implemented, the hd* or the /cdrom2
> was improperly, or not even linked to /dev/scd0. Again, IIRC, the fix
> was to delete the offending link and then to create a new correct link.
> The tutorial use to reflect this, but since 7.0 is getting almost
> ancient, the tutorial no longer reflects the needed link fix for 7.0.
> It's got to be in the ML archives somewhere. If I'm the only one that
> remembers it this way, I'll try to hunt up the fix, but I can't get to
> it right now. 'Course a sure fix would be to upgrade to 7.2 ;)
This may not be as good as a tutorial but it shows how to solve the general
problem.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg56553.html
Vic please please please test the effects on scanbus with that ZIP removed if
it doesn't show up after you fix the append. and make sure you run
/sbin/lilo after you do fix it. 7.0 and later editions had some issues with
ZIPs in a few of the possible configurations.
Civileme
