Re: CD-RW stops working with 2.4.20?

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Carl" == Carl Fink <carl@fink.to> writes:

    Carl> I recently upgraded from kernel 2.2.x to 2.4.20 (to get
    Carl> support for the Promise ATA/133 controller).  Now I can't
    Carl> burn CD's.

Most likely ide-cd is starting before ide-scsi and grabbing your CDROM
device. At least this is the case with 2.4.18-k7 on my box. 

I have a file /etc/modutils/cdrw with the following contents:

# First, get the ide-cd drive to not latch onto /dev/hdd
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
#
#
# Set up an alias for /dev/scd0 to load sr_mod
alias scd0 sr_mod
#
#
# Now get ide-cd followed by ide-scsi loaded before the SCSI drivers
pre-install sg        modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod    modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi  modprobe ide-cd
# end of cdrw file

Run update-modules and when you boot the next time everything should
be okay (note that hdd is my CDRW drive).

Cheers!
Shyamal