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Re: IDE-SCSI, CD-RW, ZIP drive weirdness



On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:39:47PM -0700, Warren Dodge wrote:
> If you have another ATAPI CD-ROM, you would want to add this line to your 
> /etc/modutils/aliases file and run update-modules:
> 
> pre-install      ide-scsi      modprobe ide-cd
> 
> This causes the IDE driver to load before ide-scsi. It then takes control of 
> the ATAPID CD-ROM -- anything that it hasn't been told to ignore. That leaves 
> just the ignored devices for ide-scsi to control.
> 
> I'm not sure if it's the same thing for an ATAPI zip drive, but you might 
> want to give it a shot. 

Thanks, that's a neat trick.

-rob

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