CD-RW woes. Again.
I've been fiddling with my kernel configuration and I've tried
every combination I can think of, and still I can't recreate my
previous setup (before I `rm -rf /var/cache/ *'d my way into a
blank hard disk).
What I want is for /dev/hdc to remain an ATAPI controlled CD-ROM
drive - so that cdparanoia and cdplay work on it - and for
/dev/hdd (HP8100i CD-RW) to become /dev/scd0 or something and be
accessible through ide-scsi.
Currently, I've got all the IDE block drivers (disk, CDROM and
floppy), all the relevant SCSI drivers and the ide-scsi emulation
layer compiled straight into the kernel, and no matter what, the
kernel refuses to use ide-scsi for /dev/hdd. If I make the IDE
CDROM driver a module, the ide-scsi driver takes over and both
CDROM drives are only accessible as ide-scsi (not what I want).
My lilo configuration has an `append="/dev/hdd=ide-scsi"' line (it
has been "/dev/hdd=none" and this makes no difference) and this
previously made everything work. Yes, I have tried typing the line
in at boot up.
I've tried to fix this myself for the last couple of weeks, and
I'm on the verge of giving up. Has anyone any idea how to get it
working? I swear if it works this time I'll write it down and
stick it on my wall.
TIA,
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alisdair mcdiarmid alisdair@letdown.demon.co.uk
[empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]
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