I've just installed Knoppix 5.0 from scratch onto the hard drive of a box with a 600MHz Pentium. I installed using a "borrowed" IDE DVD drive since the SCSI card in the box isn't bootable. However, there is a SCSI DVDROM on there: it was accessible when this was a Windows box but under Knoppix I can't access it, even after the installation is complete.
The core version is 2.6.15
The SCSI card is an old Advansys; the DVDROM drive is a Pioneer DVD-303. There's nothing in FSTAB about this DVDROM.
lspci shows this:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro13 3x AGP]
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT82 3x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Contr oller (rev 11)
0000:00:04.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C /8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-U / A BP960-U (rev 03)
0000:00:0d.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF/SG AGP
dmesg | grep shows these lines in the long bootup sequence:
scsi1 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.3K: PCI Ultra: IO 0xA800-0xA80F, IRQ 0xB
Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-303R Rev: 1.10
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
I tried variations on sr0 in fstab but with no success - but as a tyro at Linux that may have been my fault.
The "borrowed" drive (hdd) shows - this is dmesg | grep hd:
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb1 ro ramdisk_size=100000 lang=en apm=power-off nomce vga=791
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda

MA, hdb

MA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc

MA, hdd

MA
hda: WDC WD400EB-00JVF0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ST32140A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: AOpen 12X DVD-ROM/ASH 01112001, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=65531/16/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 4127760 sectors (2113 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=4095/16/63
hdc: cache flushes not supported
hdc: hdc1 < hdc5 >
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
SCSI device sda: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
SCSI device sda: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
SCSI device sda is a usb pendrive that happens to be plugged in at the moment and which works OK.
Should I abandon the idea of the SCSI drive and keep the IDE one, or am I missing something obvious?