Mike wrote: > > Here's his problem: > > > > > > 2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Should just be "hdd=scsi". Search for "=scsi" in > > linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info. > > Uhh, you sure about that?
Argh, RTFM! I even told you where to look! Configure.help: "You must then provide the kernel command line "hdx=scsi" [...] for devices if you want the native EIDE sub-drivers to skip over the native support, so that this SCSI emulation can be used instead." Also, my own configuration is proof that this works: $ dmesg Linux version 2.4.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 SMP Thu Jan 4 22:31:09 PST 2001 [...] Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302 BOOT_FILE=/boot/linux-2.4.0 ether=0,0,2,eth0 hde=scsi parport=0x378,7 ide_setup: hde=scsi [...] hda: Maxtor 96147H8, ATA DISK drive hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6502B, ATAPI CDROM drive hde: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive hdg: Seagate STT20000A, ATAPI TAPE drive [...] hda: 120060864 sectors (61471 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7473/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-cd: passing drive hde to ide-scsi emulation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [...] SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416E Rev: 1.0f Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray root:~# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW4416E ' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) *