On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jerry Kreps said:
SuSE 7.1 recognized it as hdd. As hdd my SB PCI512 could play music CDs and I could access CDs on the drive. BUT, xcdroast would not recognize it because it wasn't scsi. So, I added scsi emulation to the kernel and an hdd=ide-scsi line to lilo. Now, I can burn CDs but I can't play music CDs, Also, the scsi emulation is intefering with my parallel zip250 installation, which worked when my PleXWriter was hdd. I get two scsi devices
I'm also experiencing some wierdness with my set up. I can read a data cd from the ATAPI CD but can't read an audo cd with it. No big deal I suppose, but it would be nice to just use the ATAPI as a source drive and the Yamaha 4416 SCSI as the destination drive.
I'm between a rock and a hard place.
If I were to design my beast again I would require both the PleXWriter and the Zip250 to be scsi devices, with the scsi card loaded into the kernel at boot. jlk
Yup, I think that the IDE interface is OK for HD's, but gets very messy when you try to add other devices. I think that SCSI simplifies things immensely, and the devices are also easier to port between different machines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Karns jkarns@csd.net