[ILUG] CDROM mount problems (major and minor numbers)

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

Why not add something like 

alias char-block-xxx ide-scsi
postinstall ide-scsi ide-cdrom

to your /etc/modules.conf 

Usually does the trick (it's what it's for after all !)

P

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> I found it necessary, after setting "hdd=ide-scsi", to add the following
> to
> rc.local;
> 
> modprobe ide-scsi	# loads the scsi emulation for hdd and claims to be
> 			# ignoring hdc
> modprobe ide-cdrom	# loads the usual stuff for CDROM use.
> 
> I found that if I tried to modprobe ide-scsi on the fly, hdc would drop
> out
> of the reckoning and I couldn't mount CD in the CDROM drive.
>