Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 19:26, Paul Varner wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:18, Mark Knecht wrote: > > If these ended up causing a problem one of these days, is there a > > command to remove the devices? rm /dev/hdd seems a bit draconian but > > maybe that's all that's required? > > > rm /dev/hdd i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-22 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:18, Mark Knecht wrote: > If these ended up causing a problem one of these days, is there a > command to remove the devices? rm /dev/hdd seems a bit draconian but > maybe that's all that's required? > rm /dev/hdd is all that is required. You can recreate it again with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 17:46, Paul Varner wrote: > SuSE does it by having both the /dev/hdx and /dev/sr? devices in /dev > When you turned on DMA, it used the /dev/hdx device to turn on DMA. You > can do this in Gentoo manually, by creating the device manually and then > using hdparm with the cre

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo - MOSTLY SOLVED!

2004-01-22 Thread Paul Varner
> That doesn't seem right, after my experiences with SuSE. (I'l still in > the process of my first Gentoo install...) > > I have a combo CD-RW/DVD drive that uses SCSI emulation (under SuSE). I > discovered the need to turn DMA on when DVDs/VCDs wouldn't play back > correctly. (Jumpy playback..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 22:53, Azhdeen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:39, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: > > Why do you want to hide it? That is, do you want to make it impossible to > > use the drive, or do you want to create a more describing symlink to the > > drive? > > i'd like to hide i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Azhdeen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:39, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: > Why do you want to hide it? That is, do you want to make it impossible to > use the drive, or do you want to create a more describing symlink to the > drive? i'd like to hide it like there's no more /dev/hdc to be seen anywhere -- I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 22:27, Azhdeen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:13, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > If that's the case, than that's good and you should have a device called > > /dev/sr0. If you do, than that's your scsi-smulated cdrom... > > same subject, another part : > after I get sr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Matt Wilson
Apologies if I've missed the point of this discussion or if I'm making a point somebody already made, I've just joined the list (hi folks!). > Because for 2.6 kernels, all you have to do is load the module > ide-scsi at startup and give lilo (grub in your case) the hdx=ide-scsi > option, but for 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Azhdeen
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:13, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > If that's the case, than that's good and you should have a device called > /dev/sr0. If you do, than that's your scsi-smulated cdrom... > same subject, another part : after I get sr0, is there a way to hide hdc ? (hdc is a DVD drive) I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
Hi, and what kernel version are you running? Because for 2.6 kernels, all you have to do is load the module ide-scsi at startup and give lilo (grub in your case) the hdx=ide-scsi option, but for 2.4 kernels there is a lot of /etc/modules editing to do... You metnioned that /dev/cdrom devices d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:29:09AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what > > /dev device do I > > > mount in fstab to use the device? > > > > > >Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this > > > work? > > > > IIRC,

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
> > Hi, > >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what > /dev device do I > > mount in fstab to use the device? > > > >Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this > > work? > > IIRC, the default devfsd.conf will create a symlink to hdc at > /dev/cdrom

[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI emulation under Gentoo

2004-01-20 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >If I use a grub boot option like hdc=ide-scsi, then what /dev device do I > mount in fstab to use the device? > >Do I need to make any changes at all in /etc/devfsd.conf to make this > work? IIRC, the default devfsd.conf will create a symlink