Thinkpad Ultrabay and Redhat 8/9
 

Hi. I've been running RH for the last 6 months for the most part flawlessly on my ThinkPad R32. One thing I have never gotten past is getting the Ultrabay cd recorder to play nicely with my 2nd Ultrabay HDD because of the hdd setup in (i think) gnome.conf. I don't even care about hot-swapping although I'd love to know if that is possible.

What happens is that when I install RH with the cd-r, hdc gets configured as some sort of scsi device. So when I swap in the ihard drive (which is ide) the hardware won't load beacuse the system is looking for an scsi device. If I install with the 24x atapi cdrom that came with the laptop, I have no problems swapping between the hdd, cd-rom and cd-r but the cd-r is only seen as an atapi cd-rom and _not_ a cd recorder.

I don't know enough about the gnome.conf file to feel confident about hacking away at the thing. Can any one out there point me in the right direction? Maybe some links on the subject? I'm thinking that it should be possible to add another entry specifying an scsi device on hdc right?

:scratch: Turtle

Kinda strange answering my own post but this is obscure enough to be helpfull to others. ;o)

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/...E/README.ATAPI

Specifically:

"Here is a hint from Alan Brown <alanb@man...>:

To allow ATAPI cd and ide-scsi support on the same machine, add

`hd<x>=ide-scsi` to the lilo.conf append entry, or use
`hd<x>=ide-scsi` at the bootup lilo prompt.

I have my HP-7200 RW drive as the primary drive on the second IDE bus, so the statement used is "hdc=ide-scsi"


Later,
Turtle