I'm sorry for going over this again, but I've looked at the logs of the previous discussion and nothing helps my situation.
I'm trying (again) to make my IDE CD-RW work. I compiled my kernel 2.3.5 (I haven't had time to download 2.2.10 yet) with SCSI emulation as a module and the following SCSI options: <M> SCSI support <M> SCSI disk support < > SCSI tape support <M> SCSI CD-ROM support [*] Enable vendor-specific extensions (for SCSI CDROM) <M> SCSI generic support [*] Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device [*] Verbose SCSI error reporting (kernel size +=12K) My fstab has lines for /dev/hdc (ATAPI CDROM) and /dev/hdd (HP 8100i CD-RW), and on reboot with this new kernel both devices were mounted. So I unmounted them, typed `modprobe ide-scsi' and tried to mount /dev/scd0 (hopefully my CD-RW) on /mnt/cdrom. The error: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) was returned, and I don't know why. I can't find an ide-scsi HOWTO or anything similar, and the CD-Writing HOWTO is less than useful in this situation - it says to `use SCSI emulation and then treat your IDE CDR as a SCSI one'. Would someone please point out some relevant documentation? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left]