[NCLUG] cd writer

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Miles <milesd at cs.colostate.edu> writes:

Daniel> I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook with a cd writer in
Daniel> it. The writer, for some strange reason, is on /dev/hda... So,
Daniel> in my lilo.conf file, I have append="hda=ide-scsi".

Daniel> I have the ide-scsi driver compiled as a module but when I
Daniel> insert that module, the system freezes and I have to hold down
Daniel> the power button for 5 seconds to turn it off... When I
Daniel> *don't* pass that info the the kernel and I just use the
Daniel> device as an ide device, it works fine (but not as a
Daniel> burner). This is a bummer because I'd really like to use the
Daniel> burner.

Daniel> There are no error logs that I can find (though I'm hardly an
Daniel> expert at finding error logs if you think there might be
Daniel> something somewhere) and the system just hangs.

Daniel> This happens on 2.2.19, 2.4.21 and 2.4.22 and it seems to
Daniel> happen regaurdless of weather or not I compile the ide-scsi
Daniel> driver as a module or not.

Did you build 'ide-cd' as a module?
You can't have both ide-cd and ide-scsi at the same time. 
It sounds like you might need to make ide-cd a module so it can be
unloaded before you load the ide-scsi one. 

Daniel> The strange thing about it was that it worked on 2.2.19 when I
Daniel> installed the (debian) system but it does not work now, even
Daniel> though I have made no changes to that kernel.

Try unloading ide-cd?

Daniel> Ok, that's all the information I can think to suppply. Thanks
Daniel> for giving this a shot. :)

Hope that helps... 

kevin
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