cdrecord and ide-scsi question

[Cyber Source]

and what kind of system is your friend on?

Frank Kumro wrote:

> I meant to say No there is no physical reason
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> Frank Kumro wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> is there a reason why you can't or don't want to reboot?
>>>
>>> Frank Kumro wrote:
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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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