SI Reasoning wrote: >How would you handle 1 cdrom/dvd ide-cd and 1 cdrw >ide-scsi after boot if I want both? > Good question :)
I haven't exhaustively looked through the docs/source to find out if and how it is possible to have both modules loaded, telling each module to look at different devices. *Maybe* its something as easy as modprobe ide-cd hdd=ide-scsi modprobe ide-scsi hdd would be used by ide-scsi, all the rest by ide-cd Since the driver recognizes the arg on the kernel comline, maybe it works there as well. If that doesn't work (and in fact is an absent ability), one option is to let the cdrom/dvd be handled by the ide-scsi driver. If you load sr_mod (the scsi cdrom module) after the ide-scsi module, you should see all of your ide cdrom/cdrw/dvd drives come up as scsi cdrom drives (old /dev/scdX, now /dev/cdroms/cdromX linked to I forget where ../scd). The only downside to this is that the ide-scsi+sr_mod driver may be less efficient or less reliable than the desired ide-cd driver (just guessing). -dmc
