On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, OHPC wrote about, CD Writing - a question:
> Well, I read everything about CD Writing, and managed to get it to work.
> I use RH 6.2, HP CD-RW 8100 IDE/internal.
> So, I enabled ide-scsi as a module, edited lilo.conf, adding "append
> hdc=ide-scsi". I also ran lilo - two times to be honest, since I boot from
> a floppy, and lilo is installed in the floppy and in /dev/hdb5. So I run
> both, in the floppy and in hbd5. Lilo said something about "not being in
> the frist 1024 cylinders", but since I already knew that, and booted from a
> floppy, I thought it was fine.
> I looked into both lilo.conf files, and both have the "append" line.
> However, in order to use my CD-RW to write CDs, I need to type, when LILO:
> appears, the entire line, i.e.: "linux hdc=ide-scsi", or otherwise when I type:
> cdrecord -scanbus
> I can only see my Zip 100 Drive.
> Even when I type the entire line above and write/copy a CD, Xcdroast still
> shows my CD-RW two times, i.e.: hdc and sd.
>
> Ok, I can use it, it is nothing "serious enough" to worry about, but I like
> doing things the proper way, even if only for learning how to do it.
Lawson has explained the Lilo side of things, why not make a kernel with
the support needed as a module, that has the advantage of;
1) Smaller kernel.
2) No need for append lines via lilo.
3) memory advantages.
Why compile a kernel with drivers in the kernel when you dont always need
them.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Otto Pintiaski
>
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