Re: Lilo to Grub kills removables

From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:23:41 +0100

On Monday 29 Mar 2004 8:28 am in alt.os.linux, raf uttered these immortal
words:

>> James White enlightened us with:
>> > I got it. Turn out that unlike RedHat, Knoppix wants hdc=ide-scsi
>> > instead of hdd=ide-scsi in the grub.conf or items.lst file.
>>
>> Why are you using ide-scsi at all? It sucks, and even Linus Torvalds
>> himself thinks so!

> What are you suppose to use then?

IDE CD writers are now supported as IDE CD writers with the 2.6 kernel and
later versions of cdrecord. No need for SCSI emulation any more. 

-- 
Andy.

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