[ale] xcdroast [a romburner] <-- solution for RedHat5.2

[eric.ayers at mindspring.com (Eric Ayers)]

Vernard Martin wrote:
> 
> > My apologies for not revealing my solution for implementing xcdroast on
> > RedHat5.2.
> >
> > I had to turn on scsi emulation for ide in the kernel and recompile.
> 
> So does this work for any IDE cd-writer or just the model that you have?
> I've been having a hard time with my Sony CDW 7502. Its a rebranded Matshita
> drive and I can't get it to do anything reasonable under xcdroast so I was
> thinking about grabbing one of the cheap IDE drives that are out there.
> 
> Also will the IDE scsi emulation confuse things if you have real scsi devices
> out there?
> 
> V
> ---
> Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/
> "Luck is just one of my many skills." - Isamu from Macross Plus

I've used it once before.  After turning it on, the SCSI emulation makes 
the IDE controller look like a SCSI bus, so hdc becomes sda. Your real 
SCSI controller becomes sdb.

-Eric.