I put all the scsi stuff for my CD-burner right in to the kernel with no modules, and the kernel runs as well as it did before. Greg P.S. My CD-berner which was formerly /dev/hdd, became /dev/sr0 if that helps in anyway. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: Re: burning CD's in linux > Besides making the kernel a little bigger, does it make much difference if > I put the scsi stuff in the kernel itself too? I know this post > install/preinstall stuff with the insmod stuff that the howto suggests > makes no sense, since most modules I've ever had to add didn't matter where > they load. Then cdrecord and mkisofs will come in to play. Actually, from > trying a boot disk to see if this new system allowed me to boot linux ones, > hdd is the creative cdrw, which I assume becomes scd0 and my CD-ROM stays hdc > > At 06:17 PM 4/16/01 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi > > ActuAlly, if you do it right, the IDE driver will ignore the device > >even when the drivers are modularized. I highly recommend modularizing these > >drivers, so they won't bloat your kernel. Basically, the loading order is > >this: > >ide-scsi > >sr_mod > >sg > > These are the module names and in what order they should be loaded. > >Note that you can load sg before sr_mod if you want, just make absolutely > >sure ide-scsi is loaded first. To get the ide driver to ignore it, edit your > >/etc/lilo.conf and find the append line, the one where you insert extra > >kernel parameters. If you don't have an append line, create one under your > >main kernel image. Now, if your IDE writer is /dev/hdd, the line will look > >like this: > >append="hdd=ide-scsi" > > Note that if you do have an append line with parameters in it already, > >simply add this one into it. Remember to substitute hdd with the correct > >device. It is the IDE device you want here, not the SCSI device that it will > >become. > > > > Basically, you'll want to make sure the following kernel options are > >selected: IDE/atapi cd-rom support, scsi emulation support, scsi support, > >scsi cd-rom support, and scsi generic support. All of them should be > >modularized, except for the IDE/atapi cd-rom driver which you should include > >in your kernel. YOu will not need any of the SCSI card adapter drivers. > > > >HTH > > > > > > > >On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:30:08AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > >> Oh, I suppose compiling again is better as I end up recompiling to get > >> speakup going without mismatched module symbols anyways, the howto said > >> that modules can be used, but it looks harder to do modules as one thing > >> has to load before another, and if not done right, the regular ide driver > >> gets the interface and not the idescsi one. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
