Western digital drives and Linux?

[Mark R. Myers]

I found CD-RW integration flawless in 7.2 when doing a fresh install with
the CD-RW already in place (I have a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM drive and they work
very well together (now I just have to find Linux software so that I can
watch my DVDs on Linux, rather than having to dual-boot back to Win98).
I think to make 7.2 recognize the CD-RW for what it is, you need a two-step
process.
First, in lilo.conf, there needs to be a line in your "normal" kernel
section that says (without quotes)
"	append "hd*=ide-scsi" (with the * representing the IDE drive that your
CD-RW is).
The second line goes in (I believe) /etc/rc.d (I'm not in the Linux side
right now) and it can be the last line of all of that script. That line
should read:
modprobe ide-scsi
If that doesn't work, try doing a reinstall. That, I am sure, will work.
Mandrake 7.2 is a GREAT distribution.
Happy New Year!
Mark

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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 11:10 AM
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Subject: Western digital drives and Linux?




\_  Hello all I haven't posted in some time mainly a nebie/lurker.
\_ I have been running Mandrake 7.2 and recently installed a CD-RW drive. I
have
\_ not been able to gain access to the drive to say the least.

Given that you have gone through scsi emulation, you did remember to
try and mount the drive as scd0, not hdc, right?

David

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