Thanks Cicileme and Kevin.
It's not that i mind rebuilding a kernel, but for somereason I always loose
features in the mandrake and usually have a heck of a time getting the
kernel installed.
Anyway, I'm glad that I won't need to rebuild the kernel after all.
Kevin,
You have a zip drive as a slave to the burner? Hmmm...does that drop your
burner performance? I thought that two IDE devices on the same bus can only
go as fast as the slowest device connected. And I know that Zip drives are
terribly slow when it comes to transfer speeds. At least that's how I
understand it. So I will probably set my burner as a slave to my dvd drive.
Not sure yet really.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Burners
No kernel rebuilding
you need
append="ide-scsi" in your boot routine (Drakboot can help you)
and
modprobe ide-scsi
somewhere, as in a console or xterm or /etc/rc.d/rc.local or
/etc/conf.modules
/etc/conf.modules is probably the best place to put it as
alias block-major-11 ide-scsi
postinstall modprobe ide-scsi
Anyway, one of those techniques will work for you. Remember also that you
burn unmounted and also blank in that condition. If you leave a blank in
the burner and it is supermounted, your system may not come back from power
saver.
Civileme
root wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to be upgrading to a new ide burner...the HP 9300I and
> need to know some information.
> #1, how well does it work in Linux
> #2, will I have to recompile the kernel to make it into an emulated
> scsi device?
>
> If the kernel must be recompiled, I have a recomendation for the
> kernel crew: Build the kernel so that atapi devices such as burners are
> automatically setup as scsi emulation. I know how to build the kernel,
> but always end up pulling my hair out when I build a custom kernel.
>
> B. K. Barley
