[ale] cd rw

[Glenn Stone]

The semi-correct way to do this is to add 
alias scsi-hostadapter mydriver
to /etc/conf.modules, then
modprobe sg 
to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (it doesn't exist by default, but it's looked
for)... although I've had problems with the lower level driver timing 
out, so I just compiled it in, and did modprobe sg by itself.  

YMMV.  

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On 16 Jul 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

>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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