cdrecord and ide-scsi question

[Frank Kumro]

I meant to say No there is no physical reason

Frank Kumro wrote:
> 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.
>>>>
>>>
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