[ILUG] CDRW Problem

[Liam Bedford]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:01:42PM +0100, Nick Murtagh came forth with:
> On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 17:02, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > Yeah, but if you're going to use ide-scsi one way would be
> > to leave ide-scsi and ide-cd both as modules.  Admittedly it'll require a
> > reboot *once* when you compile the kernel. Then when you want to  
> > use your cdrw you just remove the ide-cd module and insert the
> > aforementioned ide-scsi modules.
> 
> I completely agree with you :)
> 
> It's a pity it isn't done like that in Mandrake. What do other distros
> do? I'm trying to look at this from the point of view of a non-expert
> who buys a new CDR / CDRW and just wants it to work. Mandrake sets the
> drive up correctly if it's there at install time, but I don't think it
> has any support for configuring one as described above after the fact.
> 
Well, all you really have to do is append
hdb=ide-scsi

to the command line in lilo.conf
	append="hdb=ide-scsi"

and then the ide-cdrom driver will ignore it.

I bet I got the syntax wrong, and someone else can tell me what it is
exaclty, but it's something like that.

To test, get to the LILO prompt, and boot as:
linux hdb=ide-scsi

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