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