Re: scsi emulation

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Don, 2002-10-31 at 02:43, bill traynor wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:12, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Die, 2002-10-29 at 04:56, bill traynor wrote:
> > > I'm getting the following errors with kernel 2.4.20-pre11-ben0:
> > > 
> > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
> > > 
> > > Consequently, I can't mount my DVD/CD-RW on sr0.  I noticed a previous
> > > thread regarding changes to scsi emulation recently, but I've been
> > > unable to find a solution.  Is there one?
> > 
> > Of course, there always is. :)
> > 
> > I created a file /etc/modutils/ide-scsi containing
> > 
> > alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
> > 
> > and ran update-modules.
> 
> OK, I added the latter.  Here's my /etc/modutils/ide-scsi file now:
> 
> alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
> options ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi
> 
> Note, the options line was already in there.

It's no longer necessary, maybe it even hurts?

> When I do #mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /cdrom, I get:
> 
> mount: /dev/sr0 is not a valid block device.
> 
> When I do, cdrecord -scanbus, I get:
> 
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open 'dev/pg*'. Cannot open
> SCSI driver.

I guess it actually tries to access /dev/sg*? Did you access /dev/hdb
directly before, so the IDE driver may have claimed it before ide-scsi?
Anything in the kernel output?


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