Previously, Rick Sivernell chose to write: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:12:15 -0500 > Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok now have read the BedTime reader. What I get is > > 1 If cdrom is not IDE-RW then hdx=ide-scsi is not needed, > especially if you have real scsi cdroms & writers. >
As long as you don't you want your cd burning software to see it, yes. > 2. if you have 3 cdrom drives you should have sr0 sr1 sr2 & > etc for list of the drives you have. > If they are all scsi or emulated as scsi by the ide-scsi module. > 3. If you have 3 or more drivbes & all ypou have is /sev/sr0 / sr1, > do you need to creat a new device for the remaining cddrives. > If so, how or what is the propper meth to perform this. > I don't follow this. AFAIK, all devices identified by the kernel and the ide-scsi module will have their device names created automagically. FWIW, I believe mknod is the command you need to use to create devices. But I'm not convinced that's what you want to do. Recommendation: Remove all symlinks in /dev Remove the kernel line "hdc=ide-scsi" Re-boot the system and look at your /dev directory. As I understand it, you should then have /dev/sr0: SCSI CD-ROM or CDRW /dev/sr1: SCSI CDRW or CD-ROM /dev/hdc: IDE CD-ROM If you want the IDE CD-ROM to be seen by xcdroast, or your preferred CD burning software, you'll need to load the ide-scsi module during the boot process (refer to the Bedtime reading to find the right place according to your distro). That should give you a third device, /dev/sr2, which should be the IDE-CDROM as seen thru scsi-emulation. Test the config by placing a data CD in each drive, one by one, and mounting it, 'mount -tiso9660 /dev/srx /mnt/<whatever>' Then, create the /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdwriter, /dev/<whatever> symlinks you want. HTH, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
