Hi, On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:03:52AM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > I think you should check to have 'scsi' and 'scsi disk support' compiled in > the kernel and not as modules for the ide-scsi emulation to work. I was > thinking also to replace on my Ultra 10 the CD by a CD RW. > Is the drive already recognized on boot by the Kernel ? > > Emmanuel > Only the boot-device driver need be compiled in - the rest ALL can be loaded - especially if an initrd image is used. The CD drivers can be compiled as modules with the foll. in
/etc/modutils/actions # for IDE CD-Writer AND a IDE CD-R pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd and in /etc/modutils/aliases # CD-Writer aliases - will ignore hdd as candidate for ide-cd options ide-cd ignore=hdd # CD-Writer on IDE-2 Slave and if you have devfs, in /etc/modutils/1devfsd # All CD-ROMs probeall /dev/cdroms sg sr_mod ide-probe-mod ide-cd cdrom alias /dev/cdroms/* /dev/cdroms alias /dev/cdrom /dev/cdroms You have to 'update-modules' after making changes in /etc/modutils files. With Debian, you can keep seperate files for say - sound, disks, video. All files in modutils directory will be merged into /etc/modules.conf by 'update-modules'. See 'man run-parts' for filename restrictions. I use this sort of set-up on Ultra5 and i386 with bare-minimum compiled-in drivers. Hope this is useful. - arvind.