According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU.
>
> 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).
If the device files in /dev/ are incorrect then it wont be found.
I suggest you read /usr/doc/Linux-Howto/CDROM-HOWTO it explanes what to do
and howto do it, a lot has changed since 1.1.18 ;-)
Read also /usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.h
/Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd
>
> 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?
You can replace any device with the MAKEDEV script in the /dev/ directory,
that is also explained in the doc i mentioned above.
>
> Can anyone help me out?
>
> Rob
>
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