cdrecord and ide-scsi question

[Frank Kumro]

My friend is on a windows 2000 machine. The machines are not the same 
hardware wise, I have more RAM and a better OS (IMO). So we will see who 
wins. I got him to clear the current uptime so we both start fresh today .
Cyber Source wrote:
> and what kind of system is your friend on?
> 
> Frank Kumro wrote:
> 
>> 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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