On Thursday 02 January 2003 07:14 pm, Curtis Rey wrote: -------------snip--------------
I see that your devices are both scd0 and sr0 which are intrinsically scsi devices, unlike the hdx which non-recording cdroms are generally listed as, e.g. lr-xr-xr-- /dev/cdrom -->/dev/hdd or hdc, hde.....hdx. So, if your device reads something like lrwxrwxr-x /dev/cdrom -->/dev/sr0 I'm banking that you have the ide-scsi module loaded and therefore it is a quasi scsi device. So, the problem is the hparm will not interact with this, such is the case on my system. My CDRW is under the ide-scsi module and my CDrom is under the cd-ide module -- I can set the CDrom but the the RW.
Do and lsmod and see if "ide-scsi" is indeed loaded.
Yes, just as you described. ide-scsi is loaded. If so then this
is the situation I have explained and hdparm will not interface with these devices because it thinks they're scsi. There are scsi programs but I haven't found one that will do things in the same manner that hdparm will YMMV.
Cheers, Curtis.
Thanks for your reply, I guess I will be trying Carlos' idea and place both hard drives on the same cable. I had hoped not to do this thinking that my swap partition would be faster on a seperate IDE chain (terminology?). Alternately, is there some way to change the dvd player to IDE mode? Some way to turn ide-scsi off? It seems like this was how things worked on the box I removed the drive from. Yast2 originally was able to find the dvd when it was linked to /dev/hdb, (It seems that yast2 approaches dvd's differently than is normal, ie no mount/umount when installing new packages from my dvd) but I just tried browsing a cd with /media/dvd (directory) pointing to /dev/hdb (with the appropriate fstab entry) and had no luck thanks again. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!