Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
>
> > > and that's what I did. The problem is that ide-cd only ignores hdb, but
> > > still recognizes hdc. This thing does not happen if I write, directly from
> > > the command line:
> > >
> > > modprobe ide-cd ignore='hdb hdc'
> >
> > Perhaps it's just that the kernel source is not Debianised.
> >
> What do you mean?
Only that the filename chosen for conf.modules or modules.conf
is not known by the person writing the kernel because the
kernel source and the distribution are unrelated.
Likewise, much documentation will assume that kernel sources are
unpacked and built in /usr/src/linux whereas Debian people are
encouraged not to do that.
> > Take a look at /etc/conf.modules (not modules.conf) and then
> > follow the comments,
> There's no /etc/conf.modules in Debian 2.2, at least not in my /etc
> directory! :)
Sorry, I hadn't noticed that Debian has changed filenames recently,
as someone else pointed out.
> >i.e. put your options into /etc/modutils/local and then update-modules.
> That's what i had already done, but it didn't change anything. ide-cd still
> ignores just one device. Anyway, thanks.
Well, after checking that the "ignore" has made it into the correct file,
and looking carefully for typos, then my reaction would be to put an
extra printk or two into the kernel source and see what it's actually
doing.
2.2.10 has:
MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
printk("ide-cd: will ignore %s\n", ignore); <---------
while ((drive = ide_scan_devices (ide_cdrom, ide_cdrom_driver.name, NULL,
failed++)) != NULL) {
/* skip drives that we were told to ignore */
if (ignore != NULL)
printk("ide-cd: checking drive %s\n", drive->name); <---------
if (strstr(ignore, drive->name)) {
printk("ide-cd: ignoring drive %s\n", drive->name);
continue;
}
and I've added the two marked lines. If the string 'hdb hdc' doesn't
arrive intact at that point (for example, a character has been stripped
off or something), then you can try some workarounds, like
ignore='a hdb hdc a'. It depends what it prints out.
Cheers.
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