Do you reference ide-scsi in your lilo.conf? I have it as: append =3D "hdc=3Dide-scsi hde=3Dide-scsi" =20 On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > I built my kernel which is 2.217 and selected SCSI > support. I also selected SCSI emulation as there is no SCSI > hardware. There is an ATAPI CDROM and the new Plextor CDRW drive > will simply plug in to a remaining IDE slot on one of the > controllers which are in the system. >=20 > Because of that, I also selected SCSI CDROM support > and the generic support. The only thing I didn't select was any > hardware SCSI controllers, hard disk support or tape support. >=20 > My /dev directory shows SG devices as in /dev/sg1, etc. >=20 > When I boot, the dmesg output says the following > regarding SCSI devices: >=20 > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > scsi : 1 host. > scsi : detected total. >=20 > I am not sure if there should be something in the last > line that says > scsi : detected total. >=20 > Then, I try something from root like >=20 > cdrecord -scanbus >=20 > I get >=20 > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you a= re root. > Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J=F6rg Schilli= ng >=20 > Well, I was root when I did that and that was cdrecord > -scanbus. >=20 > If I try a lucky guess like cdda2wav -D/dev/sg1, I get > the following error: >=20 > cdda2wav: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open SCSI driver. > open(/dev/sg1) in file interface.c, line 474 > Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more. > Probably you did not define your SCSI device. > You can scan the SCSI bus(es) with 'cdrecord -scanbus'. > Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option. > You can also define the default device in the Makefile. >=20 > The debug option for cdrecord told me that the device > spec points to a null pointer which means that it is not set yet > and explains why nothing else works. I could certainly set the > device name if I knew one that works. >=20 > By the way, I am using a 2.217 kernel because the 2.4x > kernels seem to not respond to aumix settings. I think I'll mess > with one problem at a time. I did compile a 2.410 kernel and had > exactly the same SCSI weirdness. >=20 > I think I maybe have missed a step or are > misunderstanding instructions in the documentation. Right now, > nothing quite adds up. >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >=20 --=20 =09 Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org