[ale] Debian 2.6.8/Plextor dvd help please

Joe Knapka jknapka at kneuro.net
Mon Dec 6 12:09:34 EST 2004


Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:

> Joe Knapka wrote:
> > Just a thought: you may need to configure the drive to use SCSI
> > emulation in order to see it from Linux.  Adding a boot param like
> > "hdc=ide-scsi" to the kernel command line should work (but check the
> > kernel docs to be sure).
> 
> I'm not sure I understand that logic.  It should show up as an ide
> device if it's in fact contected.  If it can't find the ide device, I
> don't know how it would be able to make that same device emulate scsi.

You're right, I wasn't thinking straight.

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