On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: > At 11:35 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, skidley wrote: > >On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: > > > >> At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >> >On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: > >> > > >> >> I added "append hdc=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf but I still can't find > >> >> the drive with "cdrecord -scanbus" and gcombust can't find it. The > >> >> ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted at boot > >> >> time as read-only. > >> > > >> > Try it like this (note the space right after the first ") > >> > > >> > append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet" > >> > > >> > If it's still no go, try changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount > >> > > >> > There's also a nobiospnp option you can try adding, and make > >> > sure your bios is set to 'pnp OS = no (or disabled)' > >> > > >> > Don't forget you need to run 'lilo' as root to make any edits to > >> > lilo.conf take affect, ie, before you reboot. > >> > > >> > >> I've tried everyone's suggestions plus copied and pasted some info from the > >> "CD-Writing HOW-TO". Maybe I should try recompiling the kernel or do a > >> fresh install? > >> > >> > >> > >You must have SCSI emulation support, SCSI generic support, SCSI CD-ROM > >support compiled in your kernel or even as modules you can load. > >-- > > I added insmod ide-scsi.o to rc.local and that did load according to lsmod. > The SCSI support is compiled into the kernel, apparently, since my SCSI > CD-ROM works OK. For some reason, I can't get the CDRW to work and Gcombust > can't find it and cdrecord -scanbus can't find it. The CDRW worked in 7.2 > but I had sent the CDRW in for repair prior to installing 8.1. I suppose > that the simpler solution is to do a fresh install of 8.1 with the CDRW > installed this time. If that doesn't get it going then I'm going to > reinstall 7.2. I might reinstall 7.2 anyway since I can't get my internet > connection sharing working in 8.1 (worked great in 7.2). I'm beginning to > believe that there are still some major bugs that need to be worked out of 8.1. > > > It may not help but i suggest using modprobe ide-scsi and you can add it to /etc/modules instead of rc.local as /etc/modules is for any modules you may want loaded at boot that kerenl doesn't already load. Otherwise I really don't know what else to tell you.
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