Hi All, I recompiled the 2.4.17 kernel making sure the options were correct, added to lilo, rebooted, and voila! It works! I even tested burning a large data cd just now and it works perfectly! I used X-Cdroast. Good deal, thank you so much Duane, Ben, Dale, and Charles! You guys are what make Linux (Red Hat especially) such a pleasure to learn!
Sincerely, Brandon Dorman On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 16:48, Duane Clark wrote: > > 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
