speakup.i and ide-scsi conflict

[Jude DaShiell]

Thanks, I'll try hdd=noprobe, that won't cause any problems with booting
and can't do any harm.  On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:28:38 +0800
> From: Kerry Hoath <kerry at gotss.net>
> Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: speakup.i and ide-scsi conflict
>
> Let's sort a few things out here.
> I agree that it is unreasonable for a new user to compile a kernel;
> the choices are many and varied.
> The problem you are facing is that there are 2 ways to talk to ide/atapi
> devices.
> let me demonstrate:
> Let us assume we have an ide burner to start with.
> If you compile in ide-cdrom support and scsi emulation; you get the writer
> controlled by the atapi cdrom driver.
> This is not what you want since the burning process requires scsi commands to be
> sent to the atapi device (which happens under windows too btw)
> and you need the emulation layer for this.
> The same holds true for the zip drive; without  scsi emulation
> you get it showing as an atapi floppy disk. it does work in this mode;
> but you can't use the ziptools to lock a disk in the drive set passwords etc.
>
> I would guess that what slackware has done is compiled ide-scsi emulation as a
> module. All you must do in this case is specify
> hdd=noprobe
> then load the ide-scsi module after boot.
> you'll see your burner show up as scsi device 0,0,0
> (bus,id,lun) and you can then do something like
> cdrecord -v speed=n dev=0,0,0 image
> The reason you compile ide cdrom support into your distribution kernel and not
> scsi emulation is so that the installer can read the cds to install the data;
> and a few old cdrom drives do not work with scsi emulation.
> See if you have a module called ide-scsi.o in
> /lib/modules/kernel-version/block (or is it scsi not sure) and modprobe it
> to get scsi emulation after giving the kernel the hdd=noprobe option.
> If the atapi cdrom driver has hdd the ide-scsi driver can't have it.
> hdd=noprobe tells the ide subsystem not to probe for hdd on boot so the cdrom
> driver won't find the drive which is what we want.
> The same holds true for an atapi tape drive but you use ide-tape instead of ide-scsi.
> Note that linux will talk to tape drives; zip drives; floppies; super-floppies;
> cdr and cdrw; worm; magneto optical and most others that can go
> on an atapi bus; also the floppy tape streamers work
> as well as the external parallel versions of cdrw and tape drives.
> Given a day or two we could probably hook all your backup devices to your linux box
> and have them work flawlessly.
> Linux has better out of the box backup support than
> windows 9x and probaly 2k and xp; problem is it takes initial setup to get
> it to run.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:26:15AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > When I booted into linux with linux hdd=ide-scsi, the boot up process
> > never made it to rc.local.  This leads me to the conclusion that speakup.i
> > has scsi emulation disabled in slackware 8.0.  That would explain this
> > failure and my additional speculation is that the builder of speakup.i if
> > he uses it on his own computer is backing his system up on 1.44mb floppy
> > disks.  For sure nothing else can be used as a backup medium unless zip
> > disks are used.  Linux is now about as expensive as windows over here not
> > because of screen reader technology but more because of all the failed
>

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Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>