I have ben playing around with Suse again as I did NOT like mandrake. So I am still trying to get the second cd device seen by the kernel, which is a dvd drive.
I have deleted all links to cd devices made fresh mount points in /. I have these entries in /etc/fstab: /dev/scd0 /cdrw iso9660 ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scd1 /dvd iso9660 ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 These in lilo.conf: append = "enableapic vga=0x0317 hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" The two cd devices sit as slaves one to each ide-bus. Dmesg sees: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX160E Rev: 1.0e Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray and also my camera cardreader: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate II Rev: 1.30 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x12 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 USB Mass Storage support registered. However nothing appears in dmesg for the dvd, which I would like to be seen as a scsi device for xcdroast. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users