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Re: scsi-ide



Alex Shnitman wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Erez Doron wrote:
>
> > I've just compiled the new kernel 2.0.32
> > in addition to the patch for the pentium FO OF bug,
> > it has some more new things.
> >
> > one of them is an ide-scsi device
>
> This is not new to 2.0.32 - it's been there for quite some time now.
>
> > I havan't got any experiance on scsi devices, so
> > i didn't managed to figure up how do i use th ide-scsi.
>
> You don't need experience with SCSI in order to use it. The usage is
> simple. First, add support for SCSI, and ide-scsi. Then remove the IDE
> driver for your device and add a SCSI driver for it. For example if you
> want to access a CD-ROM using ide-scsi, remove the ATAPI CD-ROM support
> and add SCSI CD-ROM support. Then compile, install, boot. You'll see this
> message on boot:
>
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>
> Then it searches for IDE devices that haven't been recognized yet, and
> adds them as SCSI devices on this virtual SCSI adapter. It's all
> automatic.
>

I have two cdroms, one is normal x24 atapi ide cdromthe other is an hp
cd-rewritable which is also atapi ide cdrom
but i want to acess my normal cdrom as ide and my rewritable as scsi ?
how do i do that ?

is there anything difrent when acessing a cdrom ( for read ) between ide and
scsi ?
is it o.k. if i just change my /dev/cdrom link from /dev/hdc to /dev/sda ?

> It's actually a very cool thing. That's how I access my GoldStar CD now.
> It works with the IDE CD-ROM driver, but the SCSI CD-ROM driver is
> better, so I prefer to use it.
>
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thanks
Erez