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Linux driver for HP 9200i SCSI cd writer
- Thread starter tim273
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Hi,
Unless there's something unusual with that drive you don't need any hardware specific drivers. What you need is a driver (module) for the scsi card itself (e.g. adaptec card). If the only hardware attached to the scsi card is a cdrw you probably wouldn't have an initrd to load the scsi code in the initial boot sequence. You would then need to load the module into memory by putting a lines like the following in the file /etc/modules.conf :
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias scd0 sr_mod
(where aic7xxx is an example of actual driver for the card) The second line means load the scsi-cd module on reference to device /dev/scd0 (first scsi cd)
You can do the command 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' to see what scsi devices are recognised and also 'cdrecord --scanbus' which does something similar.
Hope this helps as a start...
Unless there's something unusual with that drive you don't need any hardware specific drivers. What you need is a driver (module) for the scsi card itself (e.g. adaptec card). If the only hardware attached to the scsi card is a cdrw you probably wouldn't have an initrd to load the scsi code in the initial boot sequence. You would then need to load the module into memory by putting a lines like the following in the file /etc/modules.conf :
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias scd0 sr_mod
(where aic7xxx is an example of actual driver for the card) The second line means load the scsi-cd module on reference to device /dev/scd0 (first scsi cd)
You can do the command 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' to see what scsi devices are recognised and also 'cdrecord --scanbus' which does something similar.
Hope this helps as a start...
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