Re: [tlug] CD Writers

["Eric O. Flores" <goripi@example.com>]

Josh, and Tlug,

Back to this subject again!

The device file name representing the CD-Writer has to be passed to the 
driver in the Linux kernel.  Right! for the lilo.conf we add  hdb=ide-scsi. 
if the driver is statically compiled into my kernel, which I really don't 
know! According to the "CD-Writing How To" this is the most common setup. 

Now my case is that I am using grup.  Will the same append command for lilo 
work on grub?  Below my grup as it will eventually be written.  The only fact 
is that I am not sure if this will work.  I don't have experience with grub 
therefore I am hesitating to make this change.


title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-31)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ro root=/dev/hda2
        initrd /initrd-2.4.9-31.img
-->   append="hdb=ide-scsi"





??? 03 3? 2002 23:13?Eric O. Flores ????????:
> Thanks Josh.
> I'll work on this and tell you later if I got it working!
>
> ??? 03 3? 2002 10:20?Josh Glover ????????:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Eric O. Flores <goripi@example.com>
> > Subject: Re: [tlug] CD Writers
> >
> > > Shimpei san si correct!  I found good reading about this subject in
> > > http://www.linux-sxs.org/stepbystep.html
> > >
> > > I recently updated the kernel to newest version 2.4.9.
> > > Do you think this would be an issue?
> >
> > Hard to say. What matters is whether SCSI emulation is included in the
> > kernel. I think that RH leaves it out, but I don't know for sure.
> >
> > You might want to see if /dev/scd? is symlinked to /dev/hd?. As I
> > remember, SCSI emulation does this. An alternate solution would be to
> > head over to /usr/src/linux (assuming that this *is* in fact where your
> > kernel source tree is rooted) and do a make menuconfig (or make xconfig,
> > whichever), load the RH config file, and see if SCSI emulation is in
> > there. If so, it will be under ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL Support -> IDE and ATA
> > Block devices.
> >
> > Happy hacking...
> > -Josh