[Techtalk] Funky Modules Problem

Liz Young liz at kandew.net
Sun Jul 21 13:23:43 EST 2002


On Sunday 21 July 2002 11:48 am, Julie wrote:
> Julie wrote:
> > Greets,
> >
> > I just upgraded to the 2.4.18 kernel.  Suddenly most of my
> > modules aren't getting automatically loaded and worst of all,
> > the IDE-SCSI emulation isn't preventing my CD-ROM burning
> > from becoming an IDE (/dev/hdd) device.  I think that's
> > because the ide-scsi modules isn't getting loaded.
>
> That should read "IS preventing".
>
> > Did something change in the processing of /etc/modules.conf
> > for 2.4.18?
>
> Oh, and I did rebuild all the modules, move them to the correct
> location and recite the appropriate "depmod" magic.  The modules
> will load, but in the case of the CD burner, it's too late
> because the IDE code has already grabbed /dev/hdd and called
> it an IDE drive.

Hi Julie,
For the CD burner, did you pass the kernel the ide-scsi command in 
lilo.conf (or grub)?  I have: 
append = " hdd=ide-scsi"
(My drive is hdd).  Hope that helps,
 -Liz



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