-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, cr wrote:
> I've read the HOWTOs but I tend to get bogged down and confused in all the > details. And in the past I've found, when I've managed to get X-cd-roast > working (under previous Redhat installations), I've lost the ability to mount > the cd-rom in the usual way. But anyway, I know the hardware all works :) > > I'm running Debian 3.0, idepci kernel, my cd-writer is a (Goldstar) LG8080 > IDE/ATAPI which seems to be pretty much plain-vanilla (i.e. it needs no > special drivers), on /hdb. > > >From reading the HOWTOs, I need to install ide-scsi. However, if done > wrongly, this will interfere with ordinary mounting of the drive as an ide > device (I think). I would like to be able to do both - use cdrecord (via > X-cd-roast and similar front-ends) _and_ mount CDroms in the usual way. > > I *think* that if the kernel has scsi support compiled into it, then I > could just add hdb=ide-scsi to my Grub menu.lst file. However, > cdrecord -scanbus seems to indicate scsi support isn't there: I think it should be hdb=scsi, at least that's how my system is setup. > > alti:/# cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are > root. > Try: modprobe sg modprobe sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # Only needed if compiled as module > So I guess I need to load ide-scsi as a separate module. Can this be done > at any time using insmod or modprobe? And, if ide-scsi then stops me > mounting my cd-writer as a regular ide device, can I remove ide-scsi with > rmmod and will it then give me ide back? > I prefer to have it compiled into the kernel as I seem to have more control over it, I can tell it to emulate my cd-writer as scsi but keep my dvd as ide. When done as a module, both drives become scsi. I have not seen any problem using ide-scsi for my cdrom for mounting except that I had to change my symlink for /dev/cdrom to point to scd0 instead of hdb. > Any hints or guidance on which way to go would be appreciated. > > cr > > > > > > > > > - -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/B+/1+vN6RuSjKAwRAuTMAJ4s/Opwnm/xDvNifdkbwi5wczVEbwCgy0da BmviBmvGaaLtpYo5I7b8XRM= =2FJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]