On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 05:30:00PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:54:52AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > > > > I'm trying (again) to make my IDE CD-RW work. > > > > Have you done this this way successfully before? > > Something along these lines, yes. > > > On 2.0.x kernels, the SCSI emulation help specifically says to > > disable ATAPI CDROM support beacuse it will be used over SCSI > > emulation. Thus it's my understanding that a device _already_ > > detected as ATAPI CDROM will never be detected as SCSI emulated. > > Oh. I sort of see. Is it possible to make /dev/hdd SCSI only? I'll > only really need it to write CDs (and hopefully read the CD-Rs that > my Creative ATAPI spits out). >
I haven't done this sort of thing myself, but you may be able to use IDE-SCSI for /dev/hdd only with your current kernel by passing '/dev/hdd=none' as a boot parameter (either at the LILO prompt, or with 'append=...' in /etc/lilo.conf); this should ensure that the IDE driver ignores /dev/hdd, which may make it available for the IDE-SCSI driver. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
