On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:38 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:35 am, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > Hello > > > > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine. > > Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive: > > > > /dev/hda hd > > /dev/hdb dvd writer > > /dev/hdc hd > > /dev/hdd dvd rom > > > > A short test with another OS (no, it's debian woody ;-) without > > ide-scsi seems to do fine with all of them. > > > > The trouble starts when I want to use ide-scsi to burn cds or dvds. > > This time I boot sid (but I don't think this makes the difference) > > with 'hdb=ide-scsi' as kernel parameter in grub menu.lst (it's a > > 2.4.24 kernel). I can mount the dvd writer as /dev/scd0, but I cannot > > mount /dev/hdd. I tried /dev/scd1, which (to my big surprise) mounts > > the same drive as /dev/scd0. > > > > I have tried appending 'hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi' as kernel > > parameters, and a couple of other things, but had no success yet. I > > must be doing something wrong... > > > > So before I post error messages of everything I tried please tell me > > what kernel parameters (and syntax) I should try in grub. > > > > BTW: I do not really care if /dev/hdd (the dvd rom) runs with > > ide-scsi or without, as long as it works. > > > > Thanks a lot for any help, > > Robert Epprecht. > > I have found mixing hd's & cd'd on the same IDE controller to cause > issues. I have even had issues with the position of the drives on the > ribbon cable, depending on the UDMA number of the device. I would start > with hd's on one cable & cd/dvd's on the other. Make sure your chipset > is supported by kernel. This may be old info as I have been running > scsi mostly.
But then performance will take a hit. OP could run a 2.6 kernel and not use ide-scsi. ide-cd works fine for me... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order." Jawaharlal Nehru
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