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

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 24 Dec, John Winters wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 16:39 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> > On Fri 24 Dec, John Winters wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 13:50 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> > > > I was told that only one system is
> > > > normally installed, so edit /etc/modules by hand.
> > > 
> > > Any idea *what* to edit into there?  AFAICS, all relevant modules are
> > > loaded but the system still doesn't think I have a CD drive.
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
> >    For your mainly SCSI system but with IDE CD, you will probably need the
> > ide-scsi module loaded ASAP.
> 
> But I don't want a pseudo-SCSI CD drive.  Just the usual IDE type.  I
> see no reason why I can't have one, and with a 2.4 kernel it just works.
> What I'm puzzled by is why it fails under 2.6 (although I notice the
> ide-detect module seems to have disappeared in 2.6).
> 
> I don't have access to the machine just now - I'll try explicitly
> loading the IDE modules when I next get at it.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> 
   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.

-- 
Chris Bell

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