On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Civileme,
>
> Are you saying that:
>
I do take responsibility for this and apologize. I was writing a response then
saw yours. I thought about adding the symbolic links to your post, and pasted
my draft to the reply and started to edit, then I was called away for a while.
When I returned, I looked at it and decided NOT to send anything.
And I thought I had hit the cancel, but a draft was saved and went out on the
next mail check. Mea culpa.
> alias block-major-11 ide-scsi > post-install
modprobe ide-scsi [note the correct spelling of > post-install <g>] > > in
/etc/conf.modules can effectively replace my suggested >
> modprobe ide-scsi
> modprobe sg
>
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.local?
>
> I suspect one still needs the lilo.conf append to indicate
> which ide interface is to be treated as scsi emulation.
>
> Then there arises the question of shifting the modprobes for all
> those ipchains masquerading filters to invoke from
> /etc/conf.modules. How would that be done?
>
>
> Civileme wrote:
> >
> > Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> > > Assuming L-M 7.1 and the new burner is an ATAPI IDE device, as root
> > > you must set up hd?=ide-scsi in your lilo.conf stanza (then run lilo)
> > > as well as place
> > >
> > > modprobe ide-scsi
> > > modprobe sg
> > >
> > > at the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
>
> > Well, it is more effective to do
> > supermount -i disable
> > rm -f /dev/cdrom
> >
> > In /etc/conf.modules add the lines
> >
> > alias block-major-11 ide-scsi
> > postinstall modprobe ide-scsi
> >
> > then back to the command line
> >
> > ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
> >
> > If you use supermount--it is best to have another link to the
> > scsi_hostadapter in /etc/conf.modules. THis allows one to be supermounted
> > while the "duplicate" remains unmounted and ready for the burners to detect.
> >
> > Anyway, this will do what Ron suggested and make the burner device visible as
> > an ordinary CD drive as well.. But remember burners work on an unmounted
> > drive. Mount to play, unmount to burn.
