Switching from CD-RW to CD without kernel reboot

Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
Mon Dec 2 10:44:04 EST 2002


Definitely sr_mod.o to use the drive as a reader.

sg.o would also be useful if you want to do stuff with audio CDs.

Antti

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Couter [mailto:sam at couter.dropbear.id.au]
Sent: Saturday, 30 November 2002 12:52 PM
To: CLUG
Subject: Re: Switching from CD-RW to CD without kernel reboot


Burn Alting <burn at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> The relevent modules, I believe are loaded ...
> 
> # lsmod
> ...
> ide-scsi                7744   0
> ide-cd                 27392   0
> cdrom                  27712   0  [ide-cd]

You probably don't want ide-cd loaded (it's not an IDE CDROM anymore),
and you probably do want sr_mod loaded for SCSI CD support.
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