garymax Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 I recently installed an HP DVD 300i DVD writer in my HP Pavilion. The install went smoothly but now, I find out that it is an IDE drive and my cd burner nor my DVD writer functions correctly. I know that I have to enable scsi emulation in the kernel but I do not know how to do this. Can someone explain the steps to doing this so that my cd and dvd drives will function correctly? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 This is assuming you are using lilo as your boot manager. If you are using grub or some other method, someone else will have to give those directions, because I don't know them. You can do this two ways. GUI: Open a console and type su <<then hit enter>> <<type in your root password here...you won't see the cursor move...hit enter>> drakboot <<hit enter>> Click 'Configure' Choose the bootloader you are using Click Ok Highlight whichever entry or entries you boot into and individually 'Modify' them Add: hdc=ide-scsi to the Append line Click Ok -> Ok -> Ok ------------------- Command line way: Open a console and 'su' to root as above. Type: vim /etc/lilo.conf <<hit 'i' to go into edit mode>> Add hdd=ide-scsi to the append lines of each boot choice you want <<hit Esc>> Type: :qw <<hit enter>> Type: lilo -v You have to reboot for your drive to use scsi emulation. Now you are done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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