cdrecord and ide-scsi question

[Robert Meyer]

I don't think that this is what he means.  Frank appears to be trying to NOT
reboot the machine to be able to write CDs.  Rerunning LILO will enable burning
on the next reboot.

I would suspect that you'd have to unload the ide cdrom drivers at least, then
load the ide-scsi driver and then reload the ide cdrom drivers (if there's an
IDE cdrom in the system).  I don't know if this will work because I suspect
that there may be some interaction with the IDE driver itself.  If this is the
case, you'd have to unload the IDE driver itself which would cause all kinds of
difficulties :-)  In fact, I don't think the system will allow the driver to be
unloaded 'cuz IDE is currently mounted and you can't unload a driver that's in
use.

Try unloading anything associated with CDROMS and then try to load ide-scsi but
I don't think it will work.

Cheers!

Bob
--- green_man <green_man at bluefrog.biz> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 
> * green_man
> ** on **Thunderbird 0.4*


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