The 03.01.05 at 18:05, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote: [SDB]
From SuSE Linux 8.1 on, the CD drive support is no longer compiled and kept in the kernel, but implemented by way of modules (cdrom and ide-cd). As opposed to the module ide-scsi, those modules (cdrom and ide-cd) are not included in the Initrd. That is why the SCSI emulation reaches all drives and not only those listed in the kernel parameter hdX=ide-scsi.
Thanks, that explains a few things!
Itseems not to apply to a real scsi system. But I am willing to be educated here. Hardware isn't my speciality.
It applies to the CD/DVD/CDwriter things, that need to be used under ide-scsi emulation, at least for writing. However, they can be used as normal IDE devices for "normal" things. However, if we have to of those devices, and enable ide-scsi for one of them, we where getting it for both.
Further , when I first installed 8.1 both drives worked as expected. "YOU Update" yesterday , and *something* seems to have gone awry.
It may be the update itself, or the suseconfig script. If you change something manually that Yast wants to configure itself, it will reconfigure it back to what it thinks is correct.
NOW this is fstab, which has undergone a change, as have my user privileges , I can't edit various files easily any more, not even w/ sux Command.. tho nothing has changed that I can SEE in various documents there.
Permissions are automatically adjusted to the configuration in /etc/permissions* files.
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
Ah, you have a "real" scsi device.
as I said , there is nothing that shows in the user privs so I am sort of spooked to really get in an rip anythig apart , willy nilly , as it were.
Well, I got a bit lost myself. What is your problem :-? I should go to sleep now... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson