On Friday 26 October 2001 06:02, Susan Macchia wrote: [snip] There are differences btwn 2.2 (RH7.0) and 2.4 (RH7.1) kernels.
The bottom line is that ide-scsi.o is required to translate scsi to ide because there is only scsi burning software out there. The basics of ide-scsi.o is that it will take over all UNregistered ide devices, transforming them to /dev/<scsi> nodes, rather than /dev/hdX nodes. This 'rule' does not apply to ide-hard drives simply because they are pre-regiistered because they are compiled monolithic. A 2.4 kernel is smart enough to allow several drivers to co-exist on the same device node (but not used at the same time). What this means is, in a 2.4.x kernel you can have ide-scsi.o co-existing peacefully at /dev/sr1 (say) with an ide-cdrom module attached to the same device at /dev/hdc. Which device node you choose to address it as (and consequently which driver-modules are 'in effect') depends on whether it's friday, and what you had for lunch. The net effect is, you would (probably) be using /dev/sr0 cd burner, and /dev/hdc (cdrom), in the full knowledge, that if you wanted to, you _could_ address the cdrom as /dev/sr1. Under a 2.4. kernel. With a 2.2 kernel, it's winner take all. With a 2.2 kernel it's important when the ide-scsi.o module gets loaded. And there isn't much sooner than an append= statement on the command line. Thus, uner this kernel, your modules (not your monolithic) drivers, have no say. They are voided by ide-scsi.o As far as I'm aware, once you load ide-scsi.o, you can't then load ide-cdrom, rendering /dev/hdc useless. The way I get round this is to load ide-scsi AFTER the other modules, specifically, Caldera = /etc/modules/default, Redhat = /etc/rc.d/rc.local ide-cd ide-floppy ide-scsi -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
