[ale] cd rw

[Joe Bayes]

Wandered Inn typeth:

>Trying to get my machine setup to use a new cd rw.  I'm having a heck of
>a time find docs on this stuff.  I've read the cd writer howto and a
>number of the scsi docs, both howto and kernel docs.

It _was_ a bit of a pain to figure out, but now it's working fine. 

>Anyone have an existing setup they'd care to share /etc/conf.modules?

I dunno about conf.modules, but here's what I do:

rebuild kernel, module anything scsi. (scsi generic, scsi cdrom,
whatever). Turn off IDE cdrom. add 
append "hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf. I don't know if
this last part is necessary, but it seems to work. 

Reboot. insmod ide-scsi. ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0. 
ln -s /dev/cdrw /dev/scd1. (I have a cdrom as slave on first
controller, and cdrw on master second.)

Was this what you were doing?

Has anybody been able to get VMWARE to see their ATAPI cdrom running
under ide-scsi? I boot dos under VMWARE, using my dos boot disk that
works fine on the bare machine, but under vmware it reports that
there's no cdrom installed. 

--joe