[ale] Compaq Presario 1240

[James P. Kinney III]

The ATAPI cdrom's are now setup as "ide-scsi" CD's so that the burners
will work. Now cdrecord can "see" the CDROM and people can burn CD's
from a fresh install of RedHat. Used to be, it was required to build a
kernel that would support ide-scsi. It was easier to put all the atapi
stuff into the generic scsi mode, compile it into the kernel and stop
getting all the "how do I burn CD's" question.

The only headache is if a real scsi CD gets added later. It will become
the scdx, where x is the scsi ID, and the atapi will move to accomodate
it.  

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 12:32, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
> 	RH72 actually automatically configure those symlinks as well as
> fstab entries.  For reason I don't understand, an EIDE ATAPI internal
> CDROM of mine was detected and configured as /dev/scd0. If I try to access
> it as /dev/hdd (secondary slave) it will not work.
> 
> # to check what is detected by kernel during boot up.
> 	dmesg | egrep -i "hd|scd"
> # to check symlinks of possible cdrom device entry, as stephen stated,
> 
> 	ls -l /dev/cdrom*
> 	grep -i cdrom /etc/fstab
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, stephen wrote:
> 
> #On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:12:33PM -0500, ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu wrote:
> #> Hi,
> #>
> #> I installed Red Hat 7.2 on a Compaq Presario 1240 Laptop. The installation
> #> went off without a hitch. However, after the install, Linux will not mount
> #> any CD. Each time I try to mount the CD-ROM, it gives me an invalid block
> #> device error. It read the drive during the installation with no problems.
> #> Any ideas?
> #
> #Do you have /dev/cdrom symlinked to your real block device? (i.e /dev/hdb,
> #/dev/hdc, or whatever?)
> #
> #stephen
> #
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