[Gllug] My computers got no nose^H^H^H^HCD drive

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sat Dec 25 07:44:16 UTC 2004


On Sat 25 Dec, Doug Winter wrote:
> 
> Chris Bell wrote:
> >    It is most likely to be an IDE-ATAPI drive, and that is normally seen as
> > a pseudo-SCSI drive using the ide-scsi module, especially if it is a writer.
> > It will even be allocated a SCSI ID.
> 
> No, you don't want ide-scsi, the normal ide modules should work.
> 
> It's very puzzling why this isn't working - it really ought to just 
> work.  It might be worth checking the cables and things, I guess?
> 
> doug.
> 
   Please let me know if you find a different method, my writer did not work
with Debian until I followed the instructions and loaded the ide-scsi module
using /etc/modules, (it is normally loaded automatically later if required
for ordinary CD drives).

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Chris Bell

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