[3158] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI CD-Rom Installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Collins)
Fri Jan 30 17:14:58 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:05:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Collins <collinsj@ece.ucdavis.edu>
To: Bob Kruger <bkruger@mindspring.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980130125443.007a6920@mindspring.com>
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Bob Kruger wrote:
> At 10:38 AM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >You have to terminate the cdrom manually, don't use auto termination.
> Otherwise
> >it will find your cd rom on every device.
>
> >From what I am reading, it has located each device (sr1, sr2, sr3, sr4, etc).
>
> What I need to know is how to translate this to a device.
The RedHat linux distribution (at least) has renamed these device files
scd0, scd1, etc. If those exist, use those. If not, you can mknod as
described. --jw
collinsj@samba1:/dev> ls -l scd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 11, 0 Jul 1 1996 scd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 11, 1 Jul 1 1996 scd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 11, 2 Jul 1 1996 scd2
<etc>
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Jeff Collins, collinsj@ece.ucdavis.edu, Computer Engineering Research Lab
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of California, Davis
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