>>> This, I think, would tend to hide all IDE devices behind
>>> the ide-scsi module. I guess I didn't really state my
>>> intentions - I'm trying to get the ZIP drive to work
>>> reliably; I wasn't really trying to muck with the hard
>>> drive and CD-ROM, since they're both working well. Would
>>> there be any benefits/drawbacks to doing it this way?
>> AFAIK, you can't get just the ZIP drive working with IDE-SCSI.
>> I know that with CDROM drives, if you compile in IDE CD support,
>> it gets used instead of the IDE-SCSI. So, you leave out IDE CD
>> support, include IDE-SCSI, and include SCSI CD. In this case,
>> you'd have to leave out IDE disk support, which means that your
>> hard drive would be using IDE SCSI (which I don't think will
>> work as hard drives aren't ATAPI). Just include the IDE Floppy
>> support to get your IDE zip working :)
> That is completely false.
> I have a 2.2 kernel set up, with IDE support built in, and
> ide-scsi and ide-cd as modules.
> My IDE hard disks use the IDE driver built in, my ATAPI CD
> writer gets the ide-scsi module, and my ATAPI CDROM gets the
> ide-cd module. All of them function properly as well.
> You need to add "hdc=ide-scsi" "hdd=ide-cd" to your lilo config
> so the kernel knows which driver to associate with which drive.
So that's how it's done !!!
Many thanks for that Mike, I've been trying to work out how to
configure my EIDE CD-RW under Linux, but nothing I tried worked. I
wasn't aware of needing to do that though...
Best wishes from Riley.
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