Hi Larry
So are you saying that your CD-writer works in Win4Lin as a CD-writer or as a
normal CD-Rom.?
Robyn
Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> Towards the end of last week I asked if anyone understood why, with
> the win4lin kernel, I lost access to my CD-writer since it was (as I
> understood) just a patch of the Mandrake kernel). The response was
> that this kernel was compiled without SCSI support. I found that odd,
> expressed the thought that it seemed like a silly thing to do given
> that it was a kernel being distributed by Traverse in support of their
> product on a large variety of equipment. Nevertheless, I could think
> of no better explanation.
>
> I was wrong...there is a very simple solution to this problem that I
> came to after a LONG circuitous route in trying to get it to work by
> kernel rebuilds.
>
> First, I found that SCSI support is the default, suggesting that
> someone at Traverse would have to actively disable this function.
> That seemed REAL unlikely. Nevertheless, I did several kernel
> rebuilds with different options selected in an attempt to give me
> access to my drive. NOTHING worked but my compiler is still warm from
> all the work it's done in the past 24h :-)
>
> In a fit of true thinking on my part (at 1AM) I thought "Maybe this
> isn't it" and sat staring at the /etc directory, wondering what else
> it could be. Then it dawned on me...the problem is with the lilo.conf
> setup. The Traverse setup script modifies lilo.conf and sets up the
> bootable win4lin kernel. Of course it does this in simple fashion and
> therein lies the rub, though it's a simple rub.
>
> This is what Traverse adds:
>
> image = /boot/win4lin
> label = win4lin
> root = /dev/hda6
>
> This is the standard lilo setup and is exactly as it should be. BUT,
> since I'm doing the 'fake the system into thinking it's talking to a
> SCSI device when it talks to an IDE CD-writer' I need to add
>
> append = " hdc=ide-scsi"
>
> With that simple addition (no kernel builds necessary) all is well
> with the Win4lin kernel. Sure wish I could say that I learned a bunch
> about kernel building during this saga but I didn't. All I learned
> was that I can be pretty dumb at times and that sometimes answers can
> be simple things.
>
> Cheers --- Larry
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