[oclug] kerneld or kmod

[bbarnett at l8r.net]

On 03-Feb-2001 chaos wrote:
> This subject has been discussed here but I don't seem to find a
> resolution, although it appears very simple after reading the CD-Writing
> How-to. So I made the necessary changes to various files like
> /etc/conf.modules, /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and I checked to
> see if scsi emulation and support is enabled in the kernel or as a
> module. But still cdrecord -scanbus still complains that it cannot find
> the scsi driver.
> My question is how do I make sure that kerneld or kmod are doing their
> job properly. I am loading the sound and my NIC driver as modules, and I
> don't see why the ide-scsi is not loaded. I can do that in the rc.local
> but why this discrimination?
> My configuration:
> hda = IDE hard drive
> hdb = CD-Rom
> hdc = IDE hard drive
> hdd = CDRW which works fine in windows and it also worked fine in linux
> until I made the necessary changes so I can burn CDs and now I cannot
> mount the device anymore.
> I am running RedHat 6.2 without any customization. I just dumped the
> whole distribution on the hard drive. It's not the best approach but it
> does the job for me and I don't have to worry about looking for
> libraries that I didn't install or resolve dependencies that I was not
> aware about it.
> I've been looking through documentation over the net but is all based
> more or less on the CD Writting How-to.
> Any help will me much appreciated,
> 

Well, I don't use modules, so I can't help you there.  However, you HAVE to
address the IDE writer BEFORE it gets detected otherwise, or used.  Type at the
lilo prompt  :

hdd=ide-scsi

Or, add it in you lilo config, and run lilo after :

append="hdd=ide-scsi"

Otherwise, the kernel will see it as IDE, and you can't use it as scsi
afterwords.




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