[ale] cd rw

[Wandered Inn]

Thanks, after a lot of fumbling around (until entirely too early this
morning) I got it working as you've outlined below.  I don't need the
lilo entries though.

I'd like for my modules to load via /etc/conf.modules, but I have yet to
find any decent documentation on this, so I'll either resort to a lot
more fumbling, or just insmod them on boot.

Thanks for the reply, can't help you with the vmware stuff. :(

Joe Bayes wrote:
> 
> Wandered Inn typeth:
> 
> >Trying to get my machine setup to use a new cd rw.  I'm having a heck of
> >a time find docs on this stuff.  I've read the cd writer howto and a
> >number of the scsi docs, both howto and kernel docs.
> 
> It _was_ a bit of a pain to figure out, but now it's working fine.
> 
> >Anyone have an existing setup they'd care to share /etc/conf.modules?
> 
> I dunno about conf.modules, but here's what I do:
> 
> rebuild kernel, module anything scsi. (scsi generic, scsi cdrom,
> whatever). Turn off IDE cdrom. add
> append "hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf. I don't know if
> this last part is necessary, but it seems to work.
> 
> Reboot. insmod ide-scsi. ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0.
> ln -s /dev/cdrw /dev/scd1. (I have a cdrom as slave on first
> controller, and cdrw on master second.)
> 
> Was this what you were doing?
> 
> Has anybody been able to get VMWARE to see their ATAPI cdrom running
> under ide-scsi? I boot dos under VMWARE, using my dos boot disk that
> works fine on the bare machine, but under vmware it reports that
> there's no cdrom installed.
> 
> --joe

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