Re: CD-RW woes. Again.

[Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@letdown.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:48:20AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 15 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: CD-RW woes.
> Again."
> >
> > right. well, it seems that if i can work out what modules.conf
> > is,
> > this should work!
> >
>
> The debian way is to make a file in /etc/modutils named anything
> you
> want and put in it the lines that you want to assemble in
> /etc/conf.modules.

right, i tried this just before your mail arrived and it didn't
work. i forgot to run update-modules, and now it works perfectly!

so, basically, to get an IDE CDRW to work in this way:
for the kernel: compile in what makes sense (scsi options all
except 'probe all LUNs'), but make ide-cd and ide-scsimodules

lilo: the line: append="/dev/hdc=ide-cd /dev/hdd=ide-scsi"

create file in /etc/modutils (called ide-cd or something)
containing:

options ide-cd ignore=/dev/hdd
options ide-scsi ignore=/dev/hdc

run update-modules

shout `yay!' a lot and jump up and down

thanks lots for your help,
--
alisdair mcdiarmid               alisdair@letdown.demon.co.uk
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