Re: ide-scsi

[Davy Gigan <davy@info.unicaen.fr>]

Guillermo writes:
 > I compiled the 2.4.7 kernel and did an apt-get upgrade in the last few
 > days, so I don't know wether this is a kernel thing or a debian thing.
 > 
 > I have and IDE CDROM drive and an IDE CR-RW drive, so I pass the kernel
 > the ide-scsi parameter for the CD-RW so I can write cds, but since the
 > last upgrade, or since the last kernel compilation (I'm not sure) the
 > CDROM drive is also handled as an ide-scsi device, without me telling
 > the kernel or explicitly modifying anything.  Does anyone have an
 > explanation to this?

That may be a misconfiguration of your kernel.
Verify that you have compiled the ide-cd module and check the options
in your modules.conf

When you load ide-scsi, it handles also your normal cdr drive,
 a solution (provided by CD-Writing-HOWTO) is to force load ide-cd before
ide-scsi, telling it to ignore some device : your cd-rw.

[See: CD-Writing-HOWTO]
options ide-cd ignore=hdb            # tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdb
alias scd0 sr_mod                    # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install sg     modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd   before ide-scsi


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Davy Gigan
System & Network Administration
University Of Caen (France)