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Re: CD-Changers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A. Bender)
Sun May 11 18:57:19 1997

Date: 	Sun, 11 May 1997 17:50:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Paul A. Bender" <pbender@mail.orion.org>
To: Chris Hoover <cwhoover@cris.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3375F854.60FC21AF@cris.com>

On Sun, 11 May 1997, Chris Hoover wrote:

> I have a Pioneer DRM-604X cd changer hanging off of my Buslogic 946C
> scsi card.  Linux will detect all 6 cd's on boot up, but I can not see
> it when I'm in linux.  All I can see is the 4 hard drives that I have
> hanging  off the chain(sda - sdd).  What do I need to do to get the
> cdrom to be visible?

make sure that all the device files are available in /dev... I"ve got a 
DRM-600, and when I first hooked it up I had to go in and create 5 
/dev/sr# devices so I could see all of my cd drives...

also, make sure you are insmoding sr.o, or have scsi cd-rom support 
compiled in the kernle..

Paul
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