[svlug] Two CD burners

[Karl F. Larsen]

	Hi Tim, I think I was using lilo last time I had both CD appear 
as scsi devices. 


On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Tim wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:32:35PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 	I have arrived with 2 CD read-write devices on my computer which 
> > is running Red Hat 8. Using Grub I am able to make either one emulate a 
> > scsi drive from a kernel pre load in Grub. But if I put in both hdc and 
> > hdd only the first one is done.
> 
> How exactly were you trying to do both?  I think I remember having
> append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" in my /etc/lilo.conf at some point,
> and it working fine.  As for grub.. your kernel line in
> /boot/grub/grub.conf might look something like this:
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-27.7.x ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
> 
	I tried this and it didn't work for some reason....


> > 	Seem to recall if you take a couple of modules out of the kernel 
> > then you can have both CD drives appear to be scsi. This is important 
> > because cdrecord software can only work with scsi drives.
> 
> If ide-cd was built as a module, then you can use:
> 
>   options ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd'
> 
	I tried options ide-cd ignore=hdc  options ide-cd ignore=hdd but 
it didn't seem to work. I will try your line and see if that works.



> in your /etc/modules.conf.  If you're going to rebuild your kernel, just
> include ide-scsi (and scsi_mod, sr_mod, sg, ...) and leave out ide-cd.
> 
	In Red Hat you don't want to rebuild your kernel. At least I 
don't want to. There are just too many things to remember.



> Hope that helps.
> 
>    - Tim
> 

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