Brandon wrote: > Right, you definitely don't want to turn off IDE support. Not only >> would it prevent your CD-ROMs from working, but your floppy and hdd >> wouldn't work either. [:)] (Unless they happen to be SCSI.) >> > > Heh, in which case all this ide-scsi stuff wouldn't be necessary. [:-)] So how do I >set the kernel to unclaim the cdrom for the scsi module? > (change the symbolic link right?) > Many thanks.
I think what the document was talking about was turning off the ide-cd driver support. This is the driver you are using if you are mounting a CD using the device file /dev/hd*. When you use ide-scsi, you have two sets of device files to use, depending on what you are doing. Mounting a CD uses "block device" files, and these are /dev/sr* or /dev/scd* (I notice that RH 7.2 only has the /dev/scd* files), and use the sr driver. By the way, if compiled as a module, the sr driver becomes the sr_mod driver. Programs like cdrecord (and I think some audio CD players) use "character device" files, and these are /dev/sg*, and use the sg driver. Since by convention the cdrom block device files are expected to be named /dev/cdrom*, again by convention these will normally be made symbolic links to the appropriate real device files. So one way to be sure that the ide-cd driver does not grab ahold of the cdrom, is to simply not compile in the ide-cd driver. If you have done this, and the ide-cd driver is still grabbing the cdrom, then you did something wrong in the compile or kernel installation step:-) After all, if the ide-cd driver is not in the kernel, it cannot attach to the cdrom. By the way, you can tell that the ide-cd driver is attached to the cdrom by the second set of messages in /var/log/dmesg mentioning hcd and hdd. You can also leave the ide-cd driver compiled into the kernel, but tell it not to attach to the cdroms with the lines in /etc/lilo.conf like: append="hdc=ide-scsi" If you have put those lines there, and the ide-cd driver is still grabbing ahold of the cdrom, then you made a mistake somewhere with lilo. In any case, if I were in your place, since you already are somewhat familiar with the process, I would simply go through the kernel config / compile / install again, turn off ide-cd, and make sure I did not skip a piece of the process. And then go through the lilo config process again. Duane _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
