[TriLUG] any clues?

[Vestal, Roy L.]

In my experience, Most Linux distro's setup CD/DVD Writers as SCSI devices.
I've had to compile SCSI Generic support in my kernel's to get it to work
correctly. ATAPI devices are simply IDE CD devices, readers and writers. I
believe the model he's referring to, Phillips PCRW804 is an IDE 8x4x32x
Write/Rewrite/Read drive. It sounds as if he cannot get his writer working
and doesn't understand why the distro set up /dev/cdrom as a soft link to
/dev/scd0. I bet if he'd verify his /etc/fstab, he'd find the problem there.

That's where I found mine. ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Ellison [mailto:leonardbernst55 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:30 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] any clues?


Some guy wrote the documentation department here at Red Hat, said that he
might as well ask Forrest Gump as look in our books for anything useful, and
then sent me the following "description" of his problem. I have no idea what
this says and I find the guy kind of entertaining. Any clue what the hell
he's talking about? (and yes, I've already asked some people who work here 
about
it--I'm just curious what you guys might have to say).

Beth


"with checking with the book. the ls -l /dev/cdrom comes up with /dev/cdrom
-
/dev/scd0. the cat /proc/devices has ide0 and ide1. dmeg | more has an
hda
and hdc pcrw804 atapi cd/dvd rom drive scsi subsys driver rev:1.00 and
scsi0: scsi hostadapter emulation ide atapi devices. vendor phillips model
pcrw804 rev: 2,1 and type: cd-rom ansi scsi rev: 02. mount /dev/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom I get unknown devise. the cat /proc/filesystems has iso9660
listed and the cdrom installed is set to master. thank you let me know hot
to fix if possible."

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