On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:28, der.hans wrote:
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> 
> Does your CD drive show up? What device are you pointing cdrecord at?
no it doesn't ide-scsi doesn't seem to be taking over the cdrom

> The CD burner is the first device on the second IDE controller? Can you
> talk to it via /dev/hdc?
Yes I can.  I have tried on both /dev/hdc and /dev/hda (changing /etc/lilo.conf and running lilo as needed)
> eject /dev/hdc
works fine or not fine depending on what you expect.  It does eject it
when it shouldn't and wont eject /dev/scd0 when that's what I am
expecting.
> 
> I presume you know that you can't access IDE devices vie ide-scsi if the
> IDE driver's already grabbed them ( but I'm reminding you in case you forgot
> :).
Yes I do know this, I do have the line needed in lilo.conf to take care
of this.  Is there anything else that would let the ide controller steal
the drive before ide-scsi loads?

> 
> What kernel are you using?
2.4.20 and 2.4.21

> ciao,
> 
> der.hans

thanks
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Bill Warner <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>
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