On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:45, Keith Antoine wrote: > Ralph you did not address my main point, that is its not being seen on boot > as a scsi device. The cdrecordrer is as I pointed out in the first mesage,
[snip] Keith you did not mention *what* new dvd you are using. Is it scsi, or is it ide? If it's ide, you need an *additional* append statement. regardless, and especially if it's scsi, here's what you need to know the scsi name handler is Shozbot. It assigns numbers on a 1st come, 1st served basis. NOT on the more practical /dev/hdd can only be /dev/hdd. There is in fact an append statement you can use that locks each scdX number, but it's a tuffie, and frankly, bloody stupid. What this means is, as you add scsi devices to your system (whether via ide-scsi, or genuine) the names are MOST LIKELY to change. It all depends on which gets loaded / detected / mounted first. IF say you attach a new scsi cd with a lower lun number, then it will become scd0 and undo all the hardwork in /etc/fstab. Meaning? Whatever you did and mounted and tweaked as /dev/scd0 is no longer the device you're thinking it is. Second, most distros only supply /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. You will have to mknod /dev/scd2 yourself. The detection in /var/log/messages is unreliable. The device(s) don't actually become registered until the cdrom.o module gets loaded. You can't glean enuff info from ~messages at the time you looked at it. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
