Dear Skidley, My problem is in the LS-120, while I think your instructions are in deleting the links to the CDROM. I've included copies of lilo.conf and fstab.... My EIDE Zip drive is working properly..... Joseph skidley wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Joseph Markham wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > > > LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since > > it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme > > mentioned the problem in LM7.1. > > > > Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working? > > > > My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard > > Pri Master: EIDE HDD > > Pri Slave: Zip drive EIDE > > Sec Master: LS-120 EIDE > > Sec Slave : CD-RW EIDE > > > > Many thanks to whoever knows how - I've installed LM 7.2 at least 10 > > times to try and get around the problem to no avail. > > > > > > > Maybe this option is passed to the kernel by > lilo or grub(whatever you use): append=" hdc=ide-scsi" Check your > lilo.conf. also do a ls -l /dev/cd* and see what you get. If /dev/cdrom is > using scsi emulation you will get something like /dev/cdrom -> scd0 (cdrom > being a symlink to the secondary master scsi device). I have both my IDE > drives, my cdrom and burner scsi emulated and they work quite well and > it's better for burning on the fly i'm told and mine burns on the fly > flawlessly. One solution if your Cdrom is scsi emulated (/dev/cdrom -> > scd0) is to run modprobe ide-scsi. If ya don't want the drive to be scsi > emulated but it is(hence /dev/cdrom -> scd0) do the following as root: cd > /dev, then rm -f cdrom, then ln -s hdc cdrom(makes cdrom a symlink to > hdc(secondary master ide). then make any necessary changes to /etc/fstab= > make sure ya have /mnt/cdrom and its /dev/cdrom and get rid of the > append=" hdc=ide-scsi"line in /etc/lilo.conf or/boot/grub/menu.lst. That > should cover what you need to do. > > -- > Chad Y. > Registered Linux User #195191 > Registered Linux Box #86749
boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 append=" hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 append=" hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy failsafe" read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0