[UFO Chicago] IDE-CD / IDE-SCSI switching
Nate Riffe
inkblot at movealong.org
Sun Dec 28 20:47:33 CST 2003
Just now Larry Garfield made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> Sean Neakums wrote:
>
> >Rebooting is not required. What you do is build ide-scsi and ide-cd
> >as modules, and load/unload as appropriate., which also eliminates the
> >ridiculous boot-parameter braindamage. This is what I did before
> >migrating from legacy Linux 2.4 to Linux 2.6, and it worked great.
>
> That's what I was trying to do, but it wouldn't pick up properly.
>
> rmmod ide-scsi
> insmod ide-cd
>
> The above gave no errors, but /dev/hdc still was not a valid block
> device. That's the part I'm trying to fix. :-)
You're sure it's the master device on ide1, right?
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