On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:59, Marcus wrote: > Running Debian 3.0 > > I've added the appropriate "hdc=ide-scsi" option to grub.conf, but the > CD drive still won't mount.
What are you mounting? Once ide-scsi is in the kernel, your drive is no longer /dev/hdc, its /dev/scd0 You shouldn't need to mount anything to burn cd's Mounting is only for filesystems. A blank CD has no filesystem. > It seems that setup did not add ide-scsi to the modules? Or are they in > the kernel already? lsmod Is it there? > Can anybody tell me how you would add the appropriate driver config? It > seems in Debian you don't directly edit modules.conf. Run modconf as root. Choose kernel/drivers/scsi select ide-scsi and sg > After several attempts I'm fairly clueless. Mandrake recognized the > CD-R and added ide-scsi to modules.conf. What do I need to check? Yeh. Debain is more manual than Mandrake. Use modconf rather than mess with modules.conf. Read the header of modules.conf. What does it say... "Do not edit this file by hand". To do a quick summary, ide-scsi is the scsi emulator for ide drives. But if an ide drive has been recognised by the kernel, then the ide-scsi module cant take control. The lilo/grub conf line tells the kernel to leave that drive alone. Thus ide-scsi can take control of it when the module is loaded. So modconf, insert the right modules, add the line to your grub, reboot, lsmod (to make sure the modules are in the kernel) and then 'cdrecord -scanbus' and see if your drive is being scsi-emulated. Then you'll need to change any symlinks, /etc/fstab entries etc. from /dev/hdc to /dev/scd0 For example, /dev/cdrom might point to /dev/hdc. You'll need to point it to /dev/scd0 instead. Good luck! Crispin Wellington
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