Previously, David A. Bandel chose to write: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:33:19 +1130 > Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream: > > [snip] > > > modern distros deprecate the use of srX, get rid of them, literally. > > Promise from me that you can do no harm by deleting them. > > What's your source for this? I run 2.4.17 w/ devfs (the latest). At > boot, I have neither scd# nor sr# devices, but when I modprobe ide-scsi > then sr_mod, the only devices created are sr0 and sr1. These devices are > created dynamically by sr_mod. The info is built into the module. If > what you say is true, then I don't understand why I only get sr# and not > scd#. > > ????? >
<snip> My COL3.1 apparently uses both srx and scdx to refer to the same things: brwxrwxrwx 2 root disk 11, 0 Apr 27 2001 /dev/scd0 brw------- 1 dad root 11, 1 Apr 27 2001 /dev/scd1 brw------- 1 dad root 11, 0 Apr 27 2001 /dev/sr0 brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 11, 1 Apr 27 2001 /dev/sr1 Interesting to note the user/group for my devices. Not sure what's going on there... sr0 and scd0 are my SCSI CDRW, sr1 and scd1 are my IDE CD-ROM, /dev/hdd. I happen to have hdd=ide-scsi in my menu.lst. I also have ide-scsi loaded as a module in /etc/modules/default. Everything works, but it sure seems horked. Guess I'll try to play around with it some to see if I can figger out what's going on. It is likely only the only thing this task will accomplish, though, is breakage... I'll start by removing the /dev/sr0 and sr1 files and take "hdd=ide-scsi" out of grub's menu.lst file and see what happens. Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
