"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alan> I have added append hdd=ide-scsi in my lilo config and this
Alan> module is definately loaded. If I look in /proc/scsi there
Alan> is a subdirectory called ide-scsi and a single file in it
Alan> named "1" with the following text "SCSI host adapter
Alan> emulation for IDE ATAPI devices".
Alan> On my system I have a real scsi bus with a cd writer on it,
Alan> plus a usb smart media reader. When I look in the file
Alan> /proc/scsi/scsi it lists these two but NOT the ide-scsi
Alan> device - thus
Alan,
I'm not a SCSI expert (have not owned a real SCSI bus in the last 5
years) but here is a suggestion: perhaps you are loading things in the
wrong order?
If you look in dmesg do you see any text indicating that the ide-scsi
driver has actually picked up /dev/hdd? It is not uncommon for the
ide-cd driver to grab the CD ROM driver, which you must prevent by
giving ide-cd the 'ignore=hdd' option. If the ide-cd driver grabs it,
ide-scsi starts up fine but had no devices to run. You don't see any
errors. I suspect this is what is happening to you, but I can't be
sure since I don't have a real SCSI bus to confirm the behavior.
Finally, I perhaps the order of loading SCSI modules makes a
difference? I suspect not, since the documentation does indicate that
scsi_mod must be loaded before anything else and unloaded after
everything else. For my part, I force ide-scsi to load before both sg
and sr_mod, and ide-cd to load before ide-scsi. This I do via the
/etc/modutils/ structure, a search of the Debian lists should show you
many examples for the pre-built kernels.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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