On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I really would like to be able to use my CD-writer in Linux, but it seems so
> complicated. I wade through man pages, how-to's, emails, readme's, and I get
> close, but never there.
>
> I have a CDRW at hdc, and a Zip drive at hdd.
> I've got lilo.conf set right, and I added "modprobe ide-scsi" to rc.local.
> Interestingly, the Zip comes in before the CDRW:
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '13.A' Removable Disk
> 0,1,0 1) 'Memorex ' 'CDRW-2216 ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM
>
> I found some info on MandrakeUser.org that led me to delete /dev/cdrom and
> create a symlink /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd1. Just guessing, I also created a
> /dev/zip linked to /dev/scd0.
>
try /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1
> Xcdroast seems to see the CDRW OK, although I haven't learned enough about
> the program to actually try anything. I've used a Windows program to burn CDs,
> but it was a lot less complicated.
>
> I haven't been able to mount the CDRW and Zip, and I'm guessing I need the
> answer to the question I asked at the top. This is what I have in fstab:
> /dev/scd0 /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
> /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1
>
> I =think= I still need to disable generic IDE support, and I =think= I need to
> put the following statements somewhere, but I don't know where:
> options ide-cd ignore=hdb # tell the ide-cd module to ignore
> hdb
> alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
> pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi
> pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi
>
No, you don't
In lilo.conf you need
append="/dev/hdc=ide-scsi"
Now if you want the module loaded all the time, take the statement out of
/etc/rc.local and put this one in /etc/conf.modules
alias block-major-11 ide-scsi.o
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