G'day.
I would like to pass along a bit of experience, in case it helps
someone else, since my perusals of the archives suggest that a lot of
folks have fought with this issue.
I have a Thinkpad with an ATAPI CDROM, and use a HP external parport
CD writer. My kernel is a custom job, and contains all the requisite
SCSI support. Getting the parport writer to work wasn't too tough,
but I had a frustrating time trying to get the built-in CDROM drive
recognized by cdrecord so I can duplicate CDs.
I've read the volumes of posts on this subject, and have added all the
potentially helpful stuff to /etc/conf.modules:
alias scsi_hostadaptor ide-scsi
alias hdc ide-scsi
alias sr0 ide-scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
pre-install ide-scsi
and to /etc/lilo.conf:
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
and doing "modprobe ide-scsi" from rc.local.
Nothing worked; the CDROM drive refused to use the ide-scsi module,
even though all the right modules were loading.
I finally resorted to recompiling the kernel, which had provided
modular support for ATAPI CDROMs, to completely eliminate that
support. It was my hope that such a move would force the CD-ROM drive
to use the ide-scsi module. With no further modifications to my
config files, that did the trick.
So ... to anyone still frustrated by this problem, if you're
comfortable rebuilding your kernel, you might try completely disabling
support for ATAPI CDROMs as a last resort. Just be careful to leave
in static support for whatever device you're booting from (that was
ugly =).
Hope this saves someone some head-banging.
-d
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David Talkington
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