On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
> I decided to try out debian.
Ah, yes, Debian. The distro with an excellent package manager, or so I'm
told, because I've never actually seen a working Debian system. Debain, the
distro for people who harken back to the days of Linux 0.4, when men were men
and wrote their own device drivers..... ;-)
Oh, I'm sorry, you were asking for help. :-)
> Now, it says they arn't block devices and I have to use /dev/sr* BUT
> /dev/sr[0-7] goes to my first cdrom and /dev/sr[8-15] goes to the second
> one, is it just me or is that very strange?
The first part makes sense. The SCSI CD-ROM driver is "sr", and thus the
"primary" name for the devices is /dev/sr[0-9]. Many systems (Red Hat, for
example) setup /dev/scd[0-9] as aliases, though.
The second part is bogus. From devices.txt in the kernel docs:
#> 11 block SCSI CD-ROM devices
#> 0 = /dev/sr0 First SCSI CD-ROM
#> 1 = /dev/sr1 Second SCSI CD-ROM
#> ...
#>
#> The prefix /dev/scd instead of /dev/sr has been used
#> as well, and might make more sense.
Do an "ls -l /dev/sr*" and see what the major/minor device numbers are.
> dmesg shows that during booting the kernel conferms that 0-7 is my cd-r
> and 8-15 is my cdrom.
Sounds like either the kernel is configured wrong or is detecting your
devices wrong. Have you tried downloading and compiling the latest stable
kernel from pristine sources?
You might give "cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV sr" a shot, too.
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