[ILUG] CDROM mount problems (major and minor numbers)

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:20:16PM +0100 or thereabouts, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
> Why not add something like 
> 
> alias char-block-xxx ide-scsi
> postinstall ide-scsi ide-cdrom
> 
> to your /etc/modules.conf 
> 
> Usually does the trick (it's what it's for after all !)
> 
> P
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > I found it necessary, after setting "hdd=ide-scsi", to add the following
> > to
> > rc.local;
> > 
> > modprobe ide-scsi	# loads the scsi emulation for hdd and claims to be
> > 			# ignoring hdc
> > modprobe ide-cdrom	# loads the usual stuff for CDROM use.
> > 
> > I found that if I tried to modprobe ide-scsi on the fly, hdc would drop
> > out
> > of the reckoning and I couldn't mount CD in the CDROM drive.

Let me think this through...

I presume the char-block-xxx becomes char-block-hdd in my case.

The postinstall requests the loading of ide-cdrom after any loading of
ide-scsi yes?

This is for dynamic module loading is it or does this replace my entries in
rc.local?

I seem to recall setting a few somethings in modules.conf on foot (no mouth
though!) of tho CD-Writing howto but didn't get anywhere and I ain't at the
box just now to check.

Conor.
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