Re: [Cooker] ide-scsi hack

[Guillaume Cottenceau]

Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> There was a symbolic link that could be used to fool Linux into thinking
> an ide burner was a scsi burner.
> Was it...
> 
> ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/sd0

No no, the only link would be from /dev/cdrom (or cdrom2, or..) to /dev/scd0

The thing to do is to load the module "ide-scsi". It's automatic with
automatic module loading, provided you do the following:

You need the kernel to know that it must skip the relevant device when it
registers the ide devices, here's the parameter: "hdd=ide-scsi". You pass
this parameter to the kernel at boot time.




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