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
