Hello again! I still cannot get the CDRW working. Here is what I just tried... Removed 3Ware IDE-RAID card IDE0/master = 40GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP IDE0/slave = 40GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP IDE1/master = Asus 50x CDROM IDE1/slave = Sony CRX145E CDRW
FYI - mobo is MSI K7T266 Pro2 (ATA100) with Athlon XP2000+ Tried fresh new install. The installer froze up after the following was printed to the screen (might not be verbatim): Uniform CDROM driver version 3.12 I reset the machine. At the install boot prompt typed "linux hdd=ide-scsi" This time the installer succeeded in initializing and the install process completed successfully. When the machine rebooted I passed no extra arguments to the kernel (I verified that hdd=ide-scsi is NOT being passed as an argument). Once the system finished "Enabling swap space" it completely froze up. This is happening at the point where "modprobe ide-cd" is called in the rc.sysinit script. I disconnect the CDRW drive, and reboot the system with no problem. I added "options ide-cd ignore=hdd" and "alias hdd ide-scsi" to modules.conf. I then reconnected the CDRW drive. Again, I am not passing in the "hdd=ide-scsi" parameter when booting and the system boots up just fine; however, cdrom1 (hdd) is not mountable since no drivers are assigned to it. I rebooted the system and THIS time I pass the "hdd=ide-scsi" parameter when booting. The system AGAIN LOCKS UP after enabling swap space, but instead of "modprobe ide-cd" causing the hangup, "modprobe ide-scsi" causes it. ARGH! I took out the CDRW drive and connected it as a slave to the CDROM on IDE1 in a HP Vectra VL400 machine (not mine), running RH7.3, and it works with no problems. I can even burn CD's with it. Apparently, the 3Ware controller is NOT the issue. I'll put the CDRW back into my machine and set it to be the master device on IDE1 and disconnect the CDROM drive and see what happens. But I'm beginning to wonder if there is an issue with the IDE drivers and/or the ATA100. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks -- Sean Staats ---- "Sean Staats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately the ide-scsi module doesn't take any "ignore" arguments > like ide-cd does. I've looked at the source code for ide-scsi and > it > doesn't appear to take any arguments at all. I just might get brave > and add the capability for ide-scsi to accept "ignore" arguments. > After > looking at the source code in ide-cd, adding the "ignore" arguments > to > ide-scsi shouldn't be too difficult. > BUT - before I do that, I'm going to remove the 3Ware controller and > only run hard drives connected to the mobo IDE channels. Once I've > finished > re-installing on that configuration, I'll make sure ide-scsi works > fine > since there won't be any other SCSI or pseudo-SCSI devices except the > CDRW. > Oleg, I really appreciate your suggestions. > > -- > Sean Staats > > > ---- Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sean Staats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > After reading through the SCSI-2.4-HOWTO, I've learned that adding > > sg > > > and sr_mod to /etc/modules.conf is unnecessary. The reason for > this > > > is the ide-scsi module is dependent upon sr_mod module - and executing > > > 'modprobe ide-scsi' will cause modprobe to discover that sr_mod > needs > > > to be loaded before ide-scsi can be loaded - so that is what modprobe > > > will do. > > > > Interesting. The CD-Writing-HOWTO has it the other way around. Here > > is > > the /etc/modules.conf from the HOWTO: > > > > options ide-cd ignore=hdb # tell the ide-cd module to > ignore > > hdb > > alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of > scd0 > > #pre-install ide-scsi modprobe imm # uncomment for some ZIP drives > > only > > pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg > > pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod > > pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before ide-scsi > > > > It says that ide-scsi should be loaded before sg, sr_mod. > > Can you try and tell ide-scsi to ignore your scsi controller, like > > ide-cd module is told to ignore the CD-RW in the example above? > > > > -- > > Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= > > "... Of theoretical physics and programming, programming embodied > > > the greater intellectual challenge." [E.W.Dijkstra, 1930 - 2002.] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Valhalla-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/valhalla-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
