works like a champ. thanks a lot. so why is the symlink /dev/cdrom pointing a scsi device by default?
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 14:46, Rob Rogers wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 14:39:07PM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > as requested: > > > > $ls -l /dev/cdrom > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 7 10:06 /dev/cdrom -> > > /dev/scd0 > > There's the problem. hdparm only likes IDE devices, and /dev/cdrom is > pointing to a SCSI device. > > > $dmesg | grep hd > > Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi > > ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > > hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive > > hdc: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-332B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, > > UDMA(100) > > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 > > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc should work. At least it won't give you an error. > Not actually positive if it will do anything (haven't tested here, but > I've got a similar setup and it doesn't give the error it does on > /dev/cdrom) > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
