Changing drives

[Féliciano Matias]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 05:29, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> I came across one of the ugly faces of Linux recently when I changed
> around some drives. I had gotten rid of one of my hard drives, and then,
> I had to change one of my optical drives to become a master. I chose to
> change the cd writer.
> 
> All was well until it got to the part where I needed to burn something.
> But the drive was not appearing in any of the places for the Nautilus cd
> burner. I was stumped for a while, trying to figure this ine out. It
> took me the better part of an afternoon to actually figure out that I
> had to change the extra parameter I was passing to the kernel at boot in
> Grub, to enable scsi emulation for the drive.
> 
> Linux will never be easy enough for the masses if stuff like this still
> has to be configured. The problem would have been in two parts here.
> Even if the burner had been autodetected nciley, and Grub reconfigured
> automatically, it would have required a reboot, because hardware
> detection takes place after these parameters have been passed to the
> kernel.

This can be do without rebooting but it's not "user-friendly".
Remove ide-cd and cdrom modules "modprobe -r cdrom ; modprobe -r
ide-cd".
add "options ide-cd ignore=hdc" to /etc/modules.conf .
load ide-cd then ide-scsi : "modprobe ide-cd ; modprobe ide-scsi".
update symbolic links in /dev : "updfstab".

any way, you should update grub.conf otherwise this doesn't work during
the next boot.

All in all, the better is to update grub.conf and reboot.

>  Or maybe new drivers are needed for us to not have to use scsi
> emulation. Any thought on this please. I found it frustrating though.
> 
> 
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Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias at free.fr>
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