Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 May 1999 12:32:21 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Simultaneous use of cdrom.o and ide-scsi.o with 2.0? |
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"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > Is it possible for me to use the ide-scsi driver on my cdwriter > drive, while using the standard ATAPI cdrom driver on another > CDROM drive? > > I'm using the 2.0.36 kernel. I know that it can be done in > 2.2.x, but I'm wondering what trickery if any can be done to > 2.0.x to get it to work.
Configure *both* ide-scsi and ide-cdrom support into the kernel, and use a boot parameter to designate which drive(s) are for ide-scsi.
In my system, I have /dev/hdb (IDE cdrom) and /dev/hdd (IDE CD-RW), so I use "hdd=ide-scsi" in my lilo.conf "append" line. -- mlord@pobox.com
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