cdrecord not recognizing my ATAPI CD-RW

[Derek Martin]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:09:34PM -0000, Seth Gordon wrote:
>    Make sure you load the ide-scsi module before you load the
>    cdrom module...
> 
>    -derek
> 
> Hmm.  If I have these statically compiled in, rather than as modules,
> is there a way to force Linux to not check for an ATAPI CD-ROM at boot
> time?  Or do I have to recompile the kernel?

Add an append line to lilo.conf:

  append="hdX=ide-scsi"

Where X is the letter of your CD drive (i.e. 'c' for /dev/hdc).


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