"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alan> On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 4:57 pm, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ...
>> 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.
Alan> Thanks a lot - I am sure this is what it was - although
Alan> there was no error messages. However, I added ide-scsi to
Alan> /etc/modules so it is loaded almost straight away. Now
Alan> /proc/scsi/scsi lists all my devices
Hi Alan,
Glad to hear that it all worked out. BTW, a good ("best?") way to
achieve this effect (if your kernel is heavily modularized, like the
standard Debian 2.4.x kernels) is by adding a file (pick a name, any
name) in /etc/modutils/ with the following contents
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
Run update-modules after you do this to plonk this into
/etc/modules.conf. The next time you boot, things should work fine
automagically. You don't even need to add ide-scsi to /etc/modules if
you add a line like
alias scd0 sr_mod
to the same file (where you replace scd0 with your DVD device). You
might have to tweak this a bit since you have a real SCSI card, but
you get the idea....
Alan> Whereas before only the first and last were included. More
Alan> importantly, I can sit down and watch my LOTR dvd:-)
Have fun ;-)
Cheers!
Shyamal
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