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SCSI emulation in ATAPI CDRWs
I have recently recompiled my kernel in order to add scsi host emulation for my ATAPI CDRW drive, yet when I reboot, it is still recognized as an IDE drive and not as scsi. Is there any way to force the SCSI emulation on the drive?
psimation is not really correct about older kernels, the 2.0.30 and up kernel where actually abit easier to setup for cdrw. You jus added the line append="hd*=ide-scsi" to your lilo.config in the linux section.This also works on the 2.2.10 and higher kernels. They did some thing a little difernet in the 2.2.0 -2.2.9 kernels
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I have tried the things you have mentioned, but the next time I tried to reboot after the "loading linux...." came up, I recieved an error along the lines of not enough input, system halted. Does anyone have any idea what this means??
Oh and I am running kernel version 2.2.12
Oh and I am running kernel version 2.2.12
I may not have been clear the 'hd*' meant hd plus the drive letterlike hdc or hdb. You may need to boot from the install or rescue disk to get back in.
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I understood the lilo.conf part of what you told me but my recompiled kernels aren't working at all. I'm not sure what to do.
Have you attempted reinstalling the orginal kernel? It should have the modules need already built.This at the least would get you working a agian.
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One change to a bove. If you use teh bzlilo then you do not have to move the bzImage that is all done by bzlilo and it also redoes teh lilo for you.
Kernels older than 2.2 cannot let go of the ide devices, so you will have to upgrade.
read the CD-Writing-HOWTO in your docs folder, you will need to make a couple of other changes to your system as well.
Good luck