Gary Shea writes:
> I just installed Mandrake 8.1 (which comes with 2.4.8) on a P3 box, and
> am having trouble getting my ATAPI cdrom drive working with devfs. I'd
> never heard of devfs before -- elegant idea.
>
> The symptom is that the cd player doesn't work. Digging around, I
> found that there is a /dev/cdrom link to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, but the
> latter has major number 11, so it's a SCSI cdrom device. It should
> be 22 of course, hdc. At least that's what I'd expect!
Why should it be 22? You should be able to use an ATAPI CD-ROM via the
sr_mod and ide-scsi drivers, which would give you major 11 devices.
> I tried upgrading to kernel 2.4.13 which did not help.
That's old. Try 2.4.16 instead.
> I discovered the append directive " hdc=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf (what
> the hell is that doing in there?!), but taking it out (and running
> lilo) didn't change anything on reboot.
If your ide drivers are loaded as modules, then the boot option won't
have any effect in any case. You would need the following line in your
/etc/modules.conf file:
options ide-mod options="hcd=scsi"
> The kernel is booting with devfs=mount, and I'm frankly afraid to
> take it off. devfsd is running (if that's at all relevant).
I don't think this is a devfs problem. You may have a device that
doesn't work properly with ide-scsi.
Regards,
Richard....
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