cdrom and cdrw

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, both are either IDE or scsi when you use kernel mods for ide-scsi 
emmulation. I do it all the time, by the way.

If on the other hand one device is on an IDE bus and the other on a SCSI 
bus, then you let each be what it is..

Either way, simply create a new mount point directory and symlink as you 
wish. That part is all up to you. I use /cdr and /cdrw just to keep things 
clear for myself.
 On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I'm a little confused even after reading all the docs so I could use some help
> here.
> I have an ide/atapi cdrom, which I have loaded as scsi because i'm getting ready
> to get a cdrw in addition to the cdrom. Here are my questions:
> 1. Does placement of the cdrw and cdrom matter. The person installing wants to
> put them on separate ides as he says this can make the cdrw slightly faster.
> this means that one of them has to be hdb and the other has to be hdc or hdd (I
> would think hdc). Is it better to put the cdrw as single or primary and let the
> cdrom be the slave on my first ide?
> 2. Does this mean that i set up both the cdrom and the cdrw as scsi? I think I
> read that if you compile both scsi and atap/ide into the kernel the atapi/ide
> will take over which I don't want for the cdrw for sure.
> 3. If both are to be scsi, should my cdrw be scd0 and my cdrom scd1 or does this
> matter?
> 4. What symlinks do I do? Right now I have /dev/cdrom linked to scd0, but is
> this where the cdrw should be linked? Do I make an additional directory and
> mount point so that both can be mounte?
> Thanks.
> 
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