Re: tlug: Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

["Austin Kurahone" <a_downunder@example.com>]

From: Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>

>you'll probably have to specify options for io and irq on that one.  
I'm
>not sure if Linux kernel modules can autodetect EISA stuff very well.

Thanks, I'll try that, and see what happens.

>I don't believe that SCSI emu is the answer.  I'm not sure if Linux 
even
>supports ATAPI CDRW drives, though. SCSI is the way to go.

I figured out how to get the drive, to work, and it is now funtioning 
perfectly..... Here is the steps I followed in case anyone is 
intrested...

1)Upgrade to kernel 2.0.35
2)Recompile kernel with SCSI emulation and Generic SCSI devices enabled.
3)modifiy my lilo.conf to include the line 'append="hdd=ide-scsi"'
4)Rebooted
5)Installed xcdroast

The drive seems to be functioning perfectly for now.  I seriously 
considered obtaining the SCSI version but since it would have costed me 
another 10,000 for a PCI SCSI card, I got the ATAPI version instead.  
The Richo6200A is most likely the cheapest CD-RW on the market at 40,000 
and it has a slightly slow but still descent 6x read/2x write speed.

Thanks,
Austin Kurahone

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