Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:55:45 -0800 King Beowulf dijo: >On 01/29/2018 02:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: >> Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the >> same problem with 16.04. >> >> Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you >>

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread King Beowulf
On 01/29/2018 02:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same > problem with 16.04. > > Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try that? > > Tomas > IIRC, /dev/sg* are character devices, /dev/sr* are block

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
JJJ - /dev is usually a protected directory. You should probably be doing: sudo ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0 Tim -- Timothy J. Bruce visit my Website at: http://www.tbruce.com Registered Linux User #325725 On Mon, January 29, 2018 15:31, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John Jason

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:18:07 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> A slight problem: >> >> $ ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0 >> ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/dev/sr0’: File exists >> >> What am I doing wrong? > You have

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:10:41 -0800 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Yes, this would create soft link to /dev/sr1 and satisfy your >application. And so on... >I assume the syntax should be ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0, and >ln -s /dev/sg2 /dev/sr1, right? Or do I have that backwards?

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Yes, this would create soft link to /dev/sr1 and satisfy your application. And so on... These links might disappear at some point, but that would be easy to solve, if it works for you. Tomas On Jan 29, 2018 8:49 AM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 02:22:22 -0800

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 02:22:22 -0800 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same >problem with 16.04. > >Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try >that? No, I did not. try creating a soft

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same problem with 16.04. Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try that? Tomas On Jan 27, 2018 9:39 AM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: > Xubuntu 14.04.5, all updates applied. > > I have

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-27 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Synaptic finds it: Most OSes have SCSI pass-through interfaces that enable user space programs to send SCSI commands to a device and fetch the response. With SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) many ATA disks now can process SCSI commands. Typically each utility in this package implements one SCSI

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-27 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:22:36 -0800 Denis Heidtmann dijo: >Is it possible that sg3-utils and/or sg3-utils-udev is what you need? >They seem to relate to the same stuff the posted comments mentioned. Apt-get can't find the package sg3-utils-udev. As for sg3-utils, I

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-27 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Is it possible that sg3-utils and/or sg3-utils-udev is what you need? They seem to relate to the same stuff the posted comments mentioned. On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 6:01 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:39:12 -0800 > John Jason Jordan dijo: >