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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:12:47PM +0000, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:08 pm, Simon Waters wrote: > > I'd like to enable the CD writer - one of the "HOW-TO"s > > suggested this could be done without disabling ATAPI in the > > kernel but I can't find the explanation referred to. > > > > Is this true, and if so how? > > my CD-RW is on /dev/hdd, DVD/CD-ROM on /dev/hdc: > > In lilo.conf: > append="hdc=ide-cd,hdd=ide-scsi" > > then in /etc/modutils/actions: > pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd > options ide-cd ignore=hdd > > in /etc/modules: > sr_mod > sd_mod > sg > ide-scsi > ide-cd > > don't forget to run update-modutils and lilo ;) An alternative, from one of newsgroups, is to create /etc/modules/cdrw containing # First, get the ide-cd drive to not latch onto /dev/hdd options ide-cd ignore=hdd # # # Set up an alias for /dev/scd0 to load sr_mod alias scd0 sr_mod # # # Now get ide-cd followed by ide-scsi loaded before the SCSI drivers pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd Which also means you don't need to rerun lilo. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.