Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 05 October 2003 19.05, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 05 October 2003 19.17, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> > Surely there's an easier way to do something that should only take a
> > couple of minutes?
>
> There is. Assuming the drive is slave on the secondary IDE channel (hdd)
>
> add "hdd=ide-scsi" to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
> add ide-scsi to either boot.local or INITRD_MODULES (doesn't really matter
> which, so long as it gets loaded)

and of course somewhere round about here there should be a reboot

> find out which device it connects to (read the message in either /var/log/
> messages or /var/log/boot.msg). Let's assume it's sr0
>
> ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrecorder (not strictly necessary, but easier to read)
>
> make sure the permissions on /dev/sg* and /dev/sr* are correct (should be
> take care of automatically by resmgr)
>
> start working