[ILUG] TOTD ide-scsi without reboot

[bobb]

Apologies if this is already widly known, but I've looked before and
never found out how to do it...

Usually getting an ata CD-R working involves appending hdc=ide-scsi or
similar to the grub/lilo config and bouncing... I don't like bouncing...

After somepoking around I discoverd[1] you can tell the ide-cd module
to ignore a specific device when loading, leaving it free for ide-scsi
to pick it up...

Unload the modules if they are loaded:

    rmmod ide-cd
    rmmod ide-scsi

Load them again, with hdc as an ide-scsi:

    modprobe ide-cd ignore=hdc
    modprobe ide-scsi

Then cdrecord to your hearts content without a bounce.
Of course won't work if you don't use modules... ;)

Just thought I'd share...

- bobb


[1]. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html

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