On Saturday 04 January 2003 03:26 pm, Alex W. Smith wrote:
> I am using RH 7.2 and have finally gotten to the point of wanting my IDE
> CD-RW (Sony CD-RW CRX100E) to function properly.  I have read the HowTo
> and I am still a little puzzled.  I am aware that I have to trick the
> system into thinking it is a SCSI, but don't how.  I am running the Sony
> and a DVD-ROM.  I would be happy just getting the CD-RW up and running.

You are on the right track.  For the following, I am assuming that your 
CD-RW is on /dev/hdd and that you are running lilo as the boot manager.

1. Open up your /etc/lilo.conf file.  Go to the section describing your 
linux boot (it will have "image = <blah>" and "root = /dev/blah").  Add the 
line
   append = "hdd=ide-scsi"

   You MUST have the quotes around "hdd=ide-scsi".  If your CD-RW is on 
another drive, use that instead of hdd

2. After saving lilo.conf, run 'lilo' as root

3. Edit /etc/modules.conf.  Look for a line that says "alias 
scsi_hostadaptor".  If it's there, then change it.  If it's not, then add 
it.  It needs to look like so:

   alias scsi_hostadaptor ide-scsi

4. Now here is the system specific stuff... you will need to find some place 
to add a 'modprobe' line.  It varies by distribution.  In general, find a 
"boot" file in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc3.d or similar.  On SuSE, it's 
/etc/init.d/boot.local.  Add the following line:

  modprobe ide-scsi

5. Reboot.. and it should work!
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