I have a USB Sony Spressa x2 CD-RW (which is an ATAPI drive with a USB adapter). I just installed 2.3.99pre1, and after following the directions in the Linux USB Guide, was able to get it to work without much difficulty. However, I have found a problem. To get the drive to work correctly, I need to have it plugged in before I load the usb-storage module (which needs the usb-uhci module installed before it is installed) and BEFORE scsi_mod and sr_mod are loaded. If it isn't done this way, the drive doesn't get recognized, and the system may or may not hang. Since this is in a laptop system, this drive is usually not hooked up, and I need a way to make it pluggable-unpluggable on the fly. I figured I could write some scripts to check that the scsi modules were unloaded when I do a mount, and run modprobe in the correct order, but this seemed like a hack. Is there a good way to get around this? I have found that sometimes I can't unload the scsi modules (without hanging the system), so this doesn't seem like the most reliable of solutions.
And a second question: How can I figure out what device the cdrom got mounted as? when I look at /proc/scsi/scsi it shows up as scsi0: something or other, and if I run cdrecord -scanbus, it shows up in the 0,0,0 slot. But I didn't know how to interpret this, and just tried mounting /dev/s* until I found it (it ended up being at /dev/scd0) .Geoff
