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Re: Newbie problems with Generic Interface

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Monty)
Wed Apr 7 17:40:50 1999

From: Monty <xiphmont@mit.edu>
To: jmclean@imax.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:54:21 EDT."
             <8525674C.0046928E.00@ccrouter.imax.com> 
Date: 	Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:31:32 EDT

>Do I have to have a device connected to one of the scsi buses before its
>device file (sga - sgh) is accessible.

Short answer, yes.  The defice file will not open unless the hardware
is there.  The demo program is not smart enough to report the actual
error apparently (ENXIO or ENODEV oe ENOTCONFIG depending).

Monty

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