[SWLUG] CD drives & SCSI aliasing

[Gareth Watkins]

Thanks for all the replies. The problem is solved.

Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> kernel arguments are space seperated, so therefore
> 
> append=" hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi "
> 
> Should be what you are after.
> 
I tried this; it works fine. Thanks. 


"Gareth Lewis" <Gareth.Lewis at patent.gov.uk> wrote:
> as far as i remember,  ide cdroms  don't need scsi emulation only ide cdrw
> drives require all the faff with scsi-ide emulation.  so try and get the 
> cdrom wouring as an ide device. 
David Goodwin <dof at codepoets.co.uk> wrote:
> If your other cdrom dirve is a normal ide drive, then you shouldn't need 
> to use the ide-scsi stuff, and just use it as "per normal". Perhaps your 
> problem is that you don't have the modules loaded for it ?
> 
Thanks for these two replies. Yes, the cdrom was working OK with other 
applications, but for some reason the guy who wrote cdroast doesn't 
seem to like ide-cdroms, so to use the fast read speed of my other CD 
drive, or be able to do direct copies, I have to get it to appear as a 
scsi device. (This change didn't seem to affect any other applications.)

hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk suggested:
> 
> man 8 lilo
> man 5 lilo.conf
> 
> /usr/share/doc/lilo-(version-number)/doc/Technical_Guide.ps
> /usr/share/doc/lilo-(version-number)/doc/User_Guide.ps
> 
It's not just laziness -- if I do read them I can't understand them.

Thanks again,
Gareth