[PlanetCCRMA] SCSI emulation?

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> I think for the 2.6.5 kernel the documentation seems to support what
> I'm doing. From the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt I find:
> 
> "hdx=scsi": the return of the ide-scsi flag, this is useful for allowing
> ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers to use ide-scsi emulation on
> a device specific option.

2.6.x is different with regards to ide-scsi, you do not need to use the
kernel boot option AFAIK. Apparently you just point an up to date
version of cdrecord to the device and that's it, no ide-scsi emulation
needed (or wanted, it was a pretty bad kludge). 

-- Fernando

> Maybe your kernel did things differently? For clarity, as I said
> earlier, this is a Gentoo kernel, not a Karma kernel. I doubt there's
> any difference, but I don't know.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 14:38, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:22, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > 
> > >>title Gentoo Linux 2.4.22r2
> > >>root (hd0,5)
> > >>kernel (hd0,5)/boot/bzImage-2.4.22r2 ro root=/dev/hda7 hdc=scsi hdd=scsi
> > > 
> > > 
> > > actually, shouldn't it be "hdc=ide-scsi" and "hdd=ide-scsi"?  that's
> > > what i have in my grub.conf here at work running CPUBuilders Linux 3.0
> > > (essentially RH9) and at in my lilo.conf at home running
> > > slackware-current ...
> > > 
> > > gLaNDix
> > > 
> > 
> > Interesting. I was told to do it this way by someone else. It seemed to 
> > work. (I.e. - things like cdrecord stopped complaining.)
> > 
> > I did this many months ago and don't remember where I got the info.
> > 
> > Thanks for the info!
> > 
> > - Mark