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I have a HP 7200 CDRW on a Promise Ultra 100 PCI IDE controller and am
using kernel version 2.4.2. I have been following the CD-Writing HOWTO
to set up my kernel and system to use the CD writer. The HP CDRW is
found to be hdf when the system boots up. I have the necessary modules
compiled for the kernel. Then I've taken the "Testing for drivers"
script from the HOWTO & the result is given below. Apparently there must
be some funny twist due to the off board controller that is not allowing
the CD writer to be found as SCSI. I need to help to get past this
problem. The second issue is apparent below: How do I ensure that
modules are automatically loaded?

"Testing for drivers" script output:
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Ensure the module scsi_mod is loaded automatically next time.
Using /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o
Ensure the module sg is loaded automatically next time.
Using /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.o
Ensure the module sr_mod is loaded automatically next time.
Using /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.o
Ensure the module loop is loaded automatically next time.
Using /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
The following is only needed for IDE/ATAPI CD-writers.
Ensure the module ide-scsi is loaded automatically next time.
Using /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.o
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J?rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
 0,0,0   0) 'IOMEGA  ' 'ZIP 250         ' '51.G' Removable Disk
 0,1,0   1) *
 0,2,0   2) *
 0,3,0   3) *
 0,4,0   4) *
 0,5,0   5) *
 0,6,0   6) *
 0,7,0   7) *
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Thanks in advance,
Marc

Hi Marc,

it is very unrecommended to put CDRW|CD on IDE ATA100 as it will degrade
performance of your HDD.
If your System has IDE33 put it there and preferable as slave drive. As
all CD writing software expects to work with SCSI device (even on
Windows platform) you should compile ide_scsi module to work with CDRW.
In this case you can configure system such way that your IDE disks will
looks for system as SCSI devices. You should pass some parameter to
kernel so that it was not confuse what drive is SCSI and what drive is
IDE. As I have SCSI CDRW I can not help more and your best chance to
make it working is come through How_TO for cd writing. They describe
setting of the drive in more details. Just check documentation on

http://www.linuxdoc.org

Andrey

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