[ILUG] CDRW Problem

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Nick Murtagh wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 19:29, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > You might also leave boot alone and when the machine's up do (as root):
> > 
> > insmod /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o
> > insmod /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.o
> > insmod /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.o
> 
> This won't work. Because the machine has been booted without ide-scsi
> support, the ide cdrom driver will have "grabbed" the drive. When
> you insmod ide-scsi it won't find the drive. Hence you need to
> fix the ide-scsi line and reboot.

I may be wrong here and please someone correct me if I am, but we don't
have this problem presumably because ide cdrom is modular and not loaded
automatically.

Then nothing grabs it and you load the modules you want depending on
whether you want it as IDE os IDE-SCSI.  Yes, Rick, we know, get a SCSI
CDRW from the start and we wouldn't have this problem ;).

> It's dead annoying...is there any way to make the ide driver relinquish
> the drive so that enabling a CDR/CDRW drive doesn't require a reboot?

Gavin