Adding a SCSI CD-ROM

Rick Thomas yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jun 11 15:46:01 2003


Well,,,

I've installed YDLv3.0 without mishap on a PowerMac 6500/225, which has
an internal SCSI CD-ROM drive and an IDE hard disk drive.

It works great -- except for the inflexible 128MB RAM limitation of the
6500  8-( 


Rick


Rob Brandt wrote:
> 
> Quoting John M Phillips <phillipsjohnm@earthlink.net>:
> 
> > 2) The scsi cdrom driver needs to be either compiled with the kernel, or
> > loaded as a module.  The command "cat /proc/devices" should show
> >
> >       Block devices:
> >         ...
> >       11 sr
> >         ...
> >
> > If this is not there, you may need to rebuild your kernel.
> 
> Nope.  I guess this shouldn't be surprising as YDL is made for Apple hardware,
> and Apple hasn't used SCSI CD's for years.  I'll work on this.
>