On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been using Slackware for about 3 years (1.1.18 kernel),
> and needed to upgrade to the 2.0.X kernel to run the new
> binaries that are becoming available.
>
> I have recently installed Slackware 3.6. During the install
> I could not get the setup to recognize my CD-ROM. So I had
> to copy to a fat partition and install from there. The install
> went smoothly but at the end it detected the SCSI CD-ROM and
> created a link /dev/cdrom -> /dev !? My CD-ROM worked fine under
> 1.1.18, but not anymore.
>
> Well, at boot-up it complains (with good reason) that /dev is not
> a block device, so I stopped it from trying to automount
> the CD at boot. Since I've been trying to get my CD-ROM to work, but to
no
> avial.
>
> I have an old Sound Blaster 16 card, and the CD-ROM
(Matsushita-Kotobuki CR
> 503-B) is attached to the Adaptec 6360L SCSI interface on it. The sound
card
> is
> working fine, but the CD-ROM doesn't work. I've tried loading the
sbpcd.o
> module at boot time (I'm pretty sure that's the right one, the CD-ROM
Howto
> says that should work for my CD-ROM), yet it doesn't find it. I use
>
> /sbin/modprobe sbpcd sbpcd=0x340,1
>
> to try and install it, but it doesn't autodetect it (the I/O address I
got from
> win95 properties).
>
> A second problem I ran in to as well. I tried to change the link
> "/dev/cdrom->/dev" to
> "/dev/cdrom->/dev/scd0" using
>
> cd /dev
> rm cdrom
> ln -s scd0 cdrom
>
> This somehow created the following link "/dev/scd0->/dev/scd0" !!!! in
addition
> to the
> link "/dev/cdrom->/dev/scd0". For the life of me I can't figure what
happened,
> I checked my history to make sure I entered the ln command right, and I
did.
> Regardless, now I'm not sure how to restore the /dev/scd0 to what it
was. Do I
> have to reinstall to clean-up this error, or is there someway to
recreate the
> /dev/scd0 device?
>
> Can anyone help me out?
>
> Rob
You can fix scd0 like this, I think:
Script started on Fri Jun 25 00:35:42 1999
witsend:/dev# ls -l /dev/scd0
brw-r--r-- 1 mfwic root 11, 0 Jun 25 00:35 /dev/scd0
witsend:/dev# rm scd0
witsend:/dev# ls -l /dev/scd0
ls: /dev/scd0: No such file or directory
witsend:/dev# mknod scd0 b 11 0
witsend:/dev# ls -l scd0
brw-r--r-- 1 mfwic root 11, 0 Jun 25 00:36 scd0
witsend:/dev# exit
exit
Script done on Fri Jun 25 00:37:08 1999
You might want to use chmod/chgrp to change the permissions/group owner.
I don't think you want the sbpcd driver. It looks like it is for
pre-ATAPI IDE CD's, and it uses a different device, /dev/sbpcd (major
25). I think you want the scsi core, scsi_mod.o, cdrom driver,
sr_mod.o, and aha152x.o to drive the card. What kernel did you use to
install 1.1.18?? That should be a clue. I don't have any scsi, I'm
just guessing from the doco.
Lawson
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