Re: Simultaneous use of cdrom.o and ide-scsi.o with 2.0?

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Sat, 01 May 1999 12:32:21 -0400

"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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