cdrecord and ide-scsi question

[Frank Kumro]

No there is physical reason that I cannot reboot its just im having a 
contest with a friend to see who can have the greatest uptime. Sounds 
silly but I get bored quick. I was just looking at alternatives but most 
likely now I am just going to reboot.

-Frank

Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> is there a reason why you can't or don't want to reboot?
> 
> Frank Kumro wrote:
> 
>> I looked at the man lilo and didnt find anything. I also re-ran the 
>> lilo command sucessfully however that yealed no results. When I ran 
>> cdrecord --scanbus it still shows my DVD-ROM drive as my 0,0,0 and for 
>> the rest * - I did edit the lilo config to reflect the changes I 
>> wanted but I dont want to reboot. Anyone else know of a solution?
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>> green_man wrote:
>>
>>> Frank Kumro wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just noticed that I had my normal cdrom set so on boot lilo runs 
>>>> the command for ide-scsi on it to make it so i can record cds. 
>>>> However it should have been hdd not hdc that the line should have 
>>>> pointed to.  Is there a way to enable hdd to be used for cdrecording 
>>>> without rebooting? I really dont want to reboot so if there is a way 
>>>> please enlighten me. Also Merry Christmas to everyone!
>>>>
>>>> -Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Frank - I can't find it right now, but I think  you just rerun lilo.
>>> It's /bin/lilo or /sbin/lilo or something like that . I do remember 
>>> reading it at one point in time.
>>> IIRC, it was really simple.
>>> What  you basically need to do is edit the file, and force lilo to 
>>> reread the file, instead of using the copy the machine has cached.
>>> Check and see if there's a Howto text file for lilo buried some where.
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>