Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One thing which _would_ help in this area is to load CD support as a module
> rather than building it in, that way the funny ATAPI CDE burners (TraxData etc)
> can be got working under Mandrake without a kernel recompile. As things stand,
> the CD driver loads on bootup and puts the funny burners into IDE mode, from
> which the ide-scsi driver has no way of recovering pretend-SCSI mode.
you *don't* need to recompile the kernel!
7.1 got it right as far as i know.
7.2b was a bit broken, since i was grep'ing the kernel messages and they changed
:-(
i've just fixed it, using a nice ioctl :)
(more precisely: ioctl(fd, CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY) & CDC_CD_RW)
the solution is to give hdX=ide-scsi to the kernel so that the built-in kernel
ide-cd doesn't take care of it.
the second problem is that both ide-burner and ide-zip, in that case, you must
also give hdX=ide-floppy for the zip, otherwise you'll end up accessing your zip
via sda (or whatever)
cu Pixel.
