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russ loroville wrote:
>
> > 1) insmod ide-scsi   # the module's from SW 7.1
> > Now /dev/sda 'virtual' SCSI device appeared.
>        *******
> 
> YOUR BZIMAGE KERNEL PICKED UP THE OPTICAL DEVICE AS "sda" ON
> BOOTUP(DMESG)?

Probably not.  As I understand it, the kernel picks it up as an
IDE device (I believe it is the slave on the second IDE cable).
Only by running the ide-scsi module, he gets the sda (virtual).

The BL3 kernel (zimage) has no SCSI capability so it is unable 
to install the ide-scsi module.  On the other hand, the bare.i 
bzimage in Slackware 7.1 does have that capability.  See the 
following extracts from the kernel configs:

BL3 kernel config                    Slack71 bare.i config
---------------------------------    ------------------------  
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set    CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI is not set               CONFIG_SCSI=y
---------------------------------    ------------------------ 

Cheers,
Steven