[Gllug] CD Rom Writing

Peter Childs blue.dragon at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Jan 8 08:36:42 UTC 2004


	Hmm I just tried doing a

rmmod ide-cd
rmmod ide-scsi
modprobe ide-scsi

and the driver came up. Now all I have to do is hope that when I reboot
the machine it still comes up. I'm sure I tried this before. I hate
computers when they just do that. Mind you windows is even more prone to
it!

Peter Childs

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Peter Childs wrote:

> Paul Cupis wrote:
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> >On Wednesday 07 January 2004 21:20, Peter Childs
> ><blue.dragon at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> >
> >>    currently
> >>
> >>auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=801
> >>
> >>but I have also tried that :)
> >>
> >>auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=801 hda=ide-scsi
> >>
> >>    I've also got
> >>options ide-cd ignore=hd
> >>in /etc/modules.conf ....
> >>
> >>but it does not help. removing this and doing an rmmod ide-cd,
> >>modprobe ide-cd bring the cdrom back as an ide device unforintally I
> >>can't write with that.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Can you boot with hda=ide-scsi and send us the output of lsmod,
> >'cat /etc/modules' and dmesg, please?
> >
> >Paul Cupis
> >- --
> >paul at cupis.co.uk
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> sorry about the length....  I've left the "options ide-cd ignore=hda" as
> its the only thing I found on the web that should make it work. take it
> out and the ide-cd module uses the cdrom.
>
> dmesg = output from dmesg
> lsmod = output from lsmod
> modules.conf = /etc/modules.conf
> info = /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> cmdline = /proc/cmdline
>
>     Many thanks once again.
>
> Peter Childs
>
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