Re: [SLE] DVD drive recognized as a SCSI drive under 8.1?

From: michael norman (micnorman_at_lineone.net)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 21:49:38 CEST

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:49:38 +0000
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Subject: Re: [SLE] DVD drive recognized as a SCSI drive under 8.1?

    On Monday 14 October 2002 21:56, Philipp Thomas wrote:
    > Preston Crawford [ Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:40:39 -0700 (PDT)]:
    > >and my DVD drive shows up as a SCSI drive. What's going on?
    >
    > This is a minor bug in that ide-cd is missing from the initrd. So
    > ide-scsi module gets loaded first and claims all drives for itself. To
    > remedy this, edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and add ide-cd *before*
    > ide-scsi in INITRD_MODULES. Now run mkinitrd and lilo, possibly adding
    > a hdX=ide-cd (replace X by the correct letter) to the list of
    > parameters passed to the kernel. After the next reboot your DVD drive
    > shouldn't show up as SCSI drive anymore.
    >
    > Philipp

    Not sure I would call it a minor bug as it caused me to initiate a whole
    thread about xine not working (see xine in 8.1). I was tearing my hair out
    over it until I applied your fix, and now everything works including all the
    cd ripping playin programmes that it also effected.

    Mike 

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