On 26-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
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> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
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>> You *DON'T* need to recompile the kernel. I use a CD Writer with the
>> standard Mandrake kernel.
>>
>> 1)Add this to your /etc/lilo.conf:
>> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>>
>> 2)Reboot
>>
>> 3)Then, you can simply do a "modprobe ide-scsi", and voila! You can add
>> the modprobe in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
>>
>> I remember Axalon had a sexier solution, but I can't quite remember it...
>
> alias block-major-11 ide-scsi
> has an inherent flaw though, doesn't get loaded untill you try and access
> the cd, i forgot what it caused problems with. Theres also something like
> alias scsi_hostadapter0 ide-scsi, but that never did work on my system
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi works okay for me--usually. Sometimes it won't
work and I'll have to modprobe (no idea why), but usually it works.
Where does one get a list of the 'block-major-#' devices? i.e. How would I know
what block-major-11 is supposed to refer to?
-Tom
