Re: [SLUG] Scsi CD rom gone missing

[Peter Rundle <peter.rundle@nospam.altaibc.net.au>]

Hi, well we are still doing battle with this CD.

> You need to compile SCSI support into your kernel, and include both SCSI
> disc and tape support (they're separate options).

Good theory but my box at home has a scsi cd burner and scsi zip drive 
in it and dead rat 6.2 detected both with the standard kernal. Though 
both use scsi id's < 7 ). But we re-did the kernal anyway's just to be 
sure, to be sure, nope didn't do it.

Tried every major and minor number from 11 0 to 11 8 and none of
those work. I'm kinda confused with this device file mknod stuff in 
Linux With other unixes I've used the major and minor numbers specify
the scsi id, but with Linux no matter what the scsi id the cd is on,
scd0 always refers to the "first" scsi cd. Any insights into this?
Given that sda is major 8 minor 0 I'd have thought that the cd would
be major 8 minor 8 but then obviously I don't understand major and
minor number in Linux.

Anyway as it shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi I'm sure we'll get to it
somehow.

So we will change the scsi id to be less than 7 and see how we go.

Cheers

Pete

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