burning CD's in linux

[Gregory Nowak]

I put all the scsi stuff for my CD-burner right in to the kernel with no
modules, and the kernel runs as well as it did before.
Greg
P.S. My CD-berner which was formerly /dev/hdd, became /dev/sr0 if that helps
in anyway.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at UFW2.COM>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: burning CD's in linux


> Besides making the kernel a little bigger, does it make much difference if
> I put the scsi stuff in the kernel itself too? I know this post
> install/preinstall stuff with the insmod stuff that the howto suggests
> makes no sense, since most modules I've ever had to add didn't matter
where
> they load. Then cdrecord and mkisofs will come in to play. Actually, from
> trying a boot disk to see if this new system allowed me to boot linux
ones,
> hdd is the creative cdrw, which I assume becomes scd0 and my CD-ROM stays
hdc
>
> At 06:17 PM 4/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >     ActuAlly, if you do it right, the IDE driver will ignore the device
> >even when the drivers are modularized. I highly recommend modularizing
these
> >drivers, so they won't bloat your kernel. Basically, the loading order is
> >this:
> >ide-scsi
> >sr_mod
> >sg
> >     These are the module names and in what order they should be loaded.
> >Note that you can load sg before sr_mod if you want, just make absolutely
> >sure ide-scsi is loaded first. To get the ide driver to ignore it, edit
your
> >/etc/lilo.conf and find the append line, the one where you insert extra
> >kernel parameters. If you don't have an append line, create one under
your
> >main kernel image. Now, if your IDE writer is /dev/hdd, the line will
look
> >like this:
> >append="hdd=ide-scsi"
> >     Note that if you do have an append line with parameters in it
already,
> >simply add this one into it. Remember to substitute hdd with the correct
> >device. It is the IDE device you want here, not the SCSI device that it
will
> >become.
> >
> >     Basically, you'll want to make sure the following kernel options are
> >selected: IDE/atapi cd-rom support, scsi emulation support, scsi support,
> >scsi cd-rom support, and scsi generic support. All of them should be
> >modularized, except for the IDE/atapi cd-rom driver which you should
include
> >in your kernel. YOu will not need any of the SCSI card adapter drivers.
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:30:08AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> >> Oh, I suppose compiling again is better as I end up recompiling to get
> >> speakup going without mismatched module symbols anyways, the howto said
> >> that modules can be used, but it looks harder to do modules as one
thing
> >> has to load before another, and if not done right, the regular ide
driver
> >> gets the interface and not the idescsi one.
> >
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