Whoops, this was supposed to go to the list.... Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > 2) you must pass the argument "hdc=scsi" to the kernel on boot to make > > > the ide-scsi package sense the drive and install a driver for > > > it. i'm not sure how it works if you've compiled ide-scsi as a module, > > > maybe you can insmod it with this argument (?). if your > > > dvdrom/cdrom shows up as a different hd (a,b,d, whatever; check > > > dmesg), you need to use that name in the kernel argument. > > > > Does anyone have a moment to explain exactly why this makes it work? > > Which part - the module problem or the hdx=scsi? The former: without a
The reason eject doesn't work is that you prolly haven't updated /dev/cdrom to point to your new device. If it points to /dev/hdc and you're using ide-scsi, well, that isn't going to work, is it? BTW, DVD support has been in 2.2 kernels since at least 2.2.17, if not sooner. a
