On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:00:46AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > >>Installing on a PowerMac/6500 with a TEAC SCSI CD-RW drive, I had to > >>use the 2.4 kernel because the 2.6 kernel couldn't find a driver for > >>the CD. > > > >Do you know which module you need for this CD-RW drive? > > No. All I know is that it works fine with the 2.4 kernel. > How can I find out?
/var/log/syslog on 2.4 might tell you. > For what it's worth, the MacOS-9 Apple System Profiler says that > it's a CD-W512B (rev 1.0E) manufactured by TEAC. > > Also for what it's worth, when I boot the 2.6 kernel and let it run > up thru "detect and mount CD-ROM", then switch to the F2 console > and look in /proc and /dev, I do not see any indication of SCSI > devices at all. In particular, nothing in /dev/scsi (the directory > exists, but there's nothing in it) and nothing mentioning scsi in > the /proc/ide subdirectory tree. The machine has a 4GB SCSI disc > and an 80 GB IDE dsic, and, while the ide disc is visible at this > time, the scsi disc is nowhere to be found (/dev/discs show no > trace of it.) When I do "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" it does not list > any attached devices (neither CD-ROM nor 4GB disc, nor anything > else). Do you know if it's actually a SCSI drive, or does it run by IDE-SCSI emulation? That said, we do have ide-scsi in the 2.6 initrd. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
