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Quote:>Hi, everyone!
>I have Red Hat 6.0 with 2.2.12 kernel
>I also have a CD-ROM (ATAPI) and I want to use it with
>SCSI emulation (because I'll buy a CD-R (also ATAPI) and
>I want to check out SCSI emulation earlier)
>During the kernel compilation, I disabled
>"IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM support" and enabled as modules
>"SCSI emulation", "SCSI support", "SCSI CD-ROM support" and
>"SCSI generic support".
>The problem is that the "ide-scsi" module (from SCSI emulation) is not
>loaded when I access my CD-ROM.
>The only way I could see my CD-ROM with SCSI emulation is if I
>enable all the above directly in the kernel (not as modules).
>Can anyone tell me what I have to do now to see my CD-ROM with
>all the above enabled as modules?
>Thanks in advance :)

Of course, this way you have to check also that /dev/cdrom is
a link to /dev/scd? (substitute ? with the correct number).

See also the CD-Writing-HOWTO that is very clear about (the
new version, not that is shipped with RH, see on www.linux.org).

Davide

Create a file, if it does not already exist, /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.

chmod uga+x rc.modules

in that file, add this line:

/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi

Now, in your /dev directory, make sure "cdrom" is not linked to hdx
(hda, hdb, etc.) and link it to scd0.

The rc.modules file loads the scsi emulation driver early in the boot
process and this seems to circumvent whatever *RedHat does between
this stage and the login prompt which always seems to load the IDE cdrom
driver. The init scripts and kudzo are so convoluted, I just don't have
the patience to walk through it.

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