RE: Loading kernel modules permanently

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

I've had IDE CD's and CDRW's since 6.2 and they all mounted on demand then
and now with 7.2.  Once this list showed me the lilo setup it all worked
fine - 7.2 (and maybe 7.1) did the lilo thing by itself.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rick Stevens [SMTP:rstevens vitalstream com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:30 PM
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject:	Re: Loading kernel modules permanently
> 
> Les Birman wrote:
> > Rick,
> > These are the modules needed to be able to run cdrecord.  I've got an
> IDE
> > CDRW drive so the SCSI simulation driver(s) must be loaded.  I've had to
> > tell the kernel not to load the the IDE CD-ROM driver when booting by
> adding
> > a line in my lilo.conf file.   Also had to redo the link  in /dev for
> the
> > cdrom to point to the simulated scsi device (cdrom -> scd0).  There is
> no
> > access to the CDRW drive unless I insmod the aforementioned modules.
> Also
> > can not run cdrecord because it complains about no CDRW drive found
> (until I
> > manually load the modules).  So why do you think these modules should
> > autload?
> 
> If you use the "hdc=ide-scsi" thing in lilo.conf, the dependencies for
> sr_mod, scsi_mod and the rest of the lot _should_ autoload when you use
> cdrecord (or gtoaster or x-cdroast or any of the others).
> 
> I have three systems with conventional IDE CDROMs as slaves on the first
> IDE and IDE CD-Rs as masters on the second IDE and that's how I do it.
> One system (home) is a dual-proc 2GHz Athlon box, one is a single proc
> P-III/850MHz and the third is a Sony Vaio laptop (1GHz Athlon).  Well,
> actually the laptop doesn't have a CD as slave on the first IDE,
> it only has the CD-RW/DVD drive as master on the second IDE).
> 
> The boot code also creates links from /dev/scd0 (the CD-R due to the
> "hdc=ide-scsi" lilo option) to /dev/cdrom1.  So, the regular CD is
> /dev/cdrom and the CD-R is /dev/cdrom1.  Simple.
> 
> Then again, I'm running kernel 2.4.18.  Under 2.2, your mileage may
> vary.
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