Previously, Tim Wunder chose to write: Yeah, I know, replying to my own post, yada, yada.... <snip> > My COL3.1 apparently uses both srx and scdx to refer to the same things: > brwxrwxrwx 2 root disk 11, 0 Apr 27 2001 /dev/scd0 > brw------- 1 dad root 11, 1 Apr 27 2001 /dev/scd1 > brw------- 1 dad root 11, 0 Apr 27 2001 /dev/sr0 > brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 11, 1 Apr 27 2001 /dev/sr1 > > Interesting to note the user/group for my devices. Not sure what's going on > there... > sr0 and scd0 are my SCSI CDRW, sr1 and scd1 are my IDE CD-ROM, /dev/hdd. I > happen to have hdd=ide-scsi in my menu.lst. I also have ide-scsi loaded as > a module in /etc/modules/default. Everything works, but it sure seems > horked. Guess I'll try to play around with it some to see if I can figger > out what's going on. It is likely only the only thing this task will > accomplish, though, is breakage... > I'll start by removing the /dev/sr0 and sr1 files and take "hdd=ide-scsi" > out of grub's menu.lst file and see what happens.
Well, I removed the /dev/sr0 and sr1 files and took "hdd=ide-scsi" out of grub's menu.lst file and, upon first reboot, my ide CD-ROM was no longer seen by xcdroast as a scsi device. In order for my IDE CD-ROM to be seen as a scsi device, I had to add "hdd=ide-scsi" to the kernel line in my menu.lst file. This is contrary to what the bedtime reading document states. So I set out to determine why. Upon investigation, I made a WAG that the reason I needed to load ide-scsi during boot was that I had IDE CDROM support compiled into the kernel. I tested my WAG by recompiling the kernel with IDE-CDROM support as a module. Upon reboot with this new kernel, I am able to access my IDE-CDROM using xcdroast. Now, off to figure out why I can't access my IDE-ZIP drive with this same kernel. But that should be another thread... Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
