Ken,

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Ken Teh wrote:

> I replaced a CDROM with an ATAPI CD-RW.  The system, an SL303, does not know
> the CDROM drive has been replaced.  'cdrecord -scanbus' fails.  I tried a
> variety of things like:
> 
> o adding 'alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsci' to the /etc/modules.conf.
> 
> o adding append=hdd=ide-scsi to the kernel boot line

My kernel line looks like
 
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi

> 
> o relinking cdrom to scd0.  Btw, the system undoes this on reboot.
> 
> It is my impression (can't swear to this) that when an SL 303 system is
> first installed, it can detect a CD-RW device and make the appropriate
> adjustments (whatever they are).  I have other boxes which had the CD-RW at
> install time and the writer works perfectly.  Connie must have put some
> magic in anaconda for this!
> 

Anaconda does it but by the Upstream Vendor code.

> I know I've fixed this problem before on a RedHat 9 system but that was
> years ago.  I don't remember how I did it and what web reference I used to
> help me.  Can someone help?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ken
> 

-Connie Sieh