You could try something like this in your modules.conf: pre-install ide-scsi modprobe imm
/ernst On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have been doing some further tests about my usb > problems and I found out that my testing procedure is flawed. > Every new kernel I built was built using bzdisk as the last step > in the process so I left the kernel on my boot drive alone and > was using a new kernel built on a floppy disk. I believe that > that kernel uses a different lilo.conf file because that was part > of the reason why I see no SCSI emulation for the IDE CDROM. > > I bit the bullet and built a new kernel with the IDE SCSI > emulation as before and the usb port mass storage driver support. > > This time, I still have the CDROM as /dev/sr0 or > /dev/scd0 so that is good. What I still don't seem to have is > anything happening with the usb port and mass-storage driver. > > The syslog shows that the usb drivers installed, > registered and initialized, but there are no new devices. > > I am testing a new Maxtor 5000 LE external drive with > this system so I have the two unknowns of the new usb > installation plus the new drive which may or may not work with > Linux. The drive works with Windows and Mac OSX so it is not > known whether or not it will work here. > > Shouldn't there be some kind of dialog regarding the usb > activity when the system boots besides the simple fact that the > usb support is there? > > I even temporarily took out the append command in > lilo.conf that maps /dev/hdc to scsi and the SCSI did go away. > The usb support, however, does not appear to have added any new > devices with the only thing at all being a usb directory in > /proc/bus which is empty. > > Does it matter which usb port I connect to on the > mother board? > > Many thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
