playing DVD (IDE /SCSI)

[René L. Reingard]

hi Ziyad and others

> b.) IDE SCSI emulation for the DVD?
> There are two types of CD-ROM and DVD drives: IDE (the common one, and
> most likely every one in this list got one of those) and SCSI (very
> expansive, old, and most likely no one in this list have it).  That
> being said, in Linux you can access IDE drives in two different ways:
>      1. The neutral way (as IDE device) and this is the default as of
>         Linux 2.6 and it's the recommended.
>      2. Using SCSI emulation (in other words, Linux treats the drive as
>         if it is an SCSI device using some internal translator).
>
> To try editing the file ("sudo gedit /etc/modules") using the SCSI  
> emulation, put the following lines at the *top* of
> the file "/etc/modules":
>         ide_scsi
>         sr_mod
>         sg

> Now, reboot your system and hope that this will work.  (By the way, by
> using the SCSI emulation, you wont lose any functionality from the PC.)


FIRST, this is the output of MODULES so far by default:

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.

sr_mod
psmouse
mousedev
ide-cd
ide-disk
ide-generic
sbp2
lp


AND second, i do know by HAL's information, that the CD-Drive is a IDE one.

regards,
René


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