Re: ide-scsi device question
WOW
thats the best HOWTO i've ever seen on this subject!
I'm printing it off now (and i wasn't even in this thread)
At 06:29 AM 8/8/01 GMT, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
>>I recently enabled the ide-scsi option in my kernel (and set it up so that
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>>lilo started it for the right devices) for my cd burner. I also have the
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>>generic scsi driver in there. My burner BURNS just fine, but I was wondering
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>>what the new device file name is that refers to the device. I'm mainly
>just
>>looking for the pattern it adheres to. I can't seem to mount anything in
>my
>>burner or in my regular cdrom drive because the /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd are
>no
>>longer valid for those devices. I thought it was something like /dev/scd0,
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>>but I tried several /dev/sd* and scd* files, but none of them worked.
>>(unless there's one that I'm missing and not trying)
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>I can't really unscrable your question (I'm probably too unconcentrated right
>now).
>However, I have a vague idea that you are asking "How do I mount an IDE CD
>drive that has been set under ide-scsi administration?"
>
>Let us take my own system as an example:
>
>Before setting up ide-scsi I have one IDE CD-RW. It is the slave on the primary
>IDE controller.
>Its device is named /dev/hdb
>It also has a symbolic link named /dev/cdrom which, in this case, points
>to /dev/hdb
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>Now I want to be able to both burn CDs with this drive AND I want to be able
>to mount it as an ordinary CD drive.
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>I do this:
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>I configure the kernel to use sg (generic scsi) and ide-scsi.
>On my system they are loadable modules.
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>Then I tell LILO to tell the kernel to treat my CD drive as a scsi device
>by using the ide-scsi driver.
>I do that in /etc/lilo.conf where I put this in the append line:
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>append="hdb=ide-scsi"
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>I then run /sbin/lilo to make the changes take effect upon the next reboot.
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>I then reboot.
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>Now my CD drive is no longer /dev/hdb. It has become /dev/scd0.
>However, my /dev/cdrom still points to /dev/hdb. Trying to mount my CD drive
>now will fail.
>I must now make /dev/cdrom point to /dev/scd0
>I achieve that like this:
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>rm /dev/cdrom
>ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
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>I.e. first I remove the old symlink since it is no longer any good.
>Then I make a new symlik that point to the correct device.
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>For you I my first guess would be that your CD drives must be /dev/scd<something>
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>Have you tried mounting the devices manually one by one?
>This is the tedious way to find your devices, but it should be foolproof.
>
>What does cdrecord -scanbus report? (I haven't got it within reach right
>this minute)
>I would think there would be some tools that could scan the virtual scsi
>bus and list devices. I never needed one, so I can't help you there.
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>I hope this helps you.
>
>Best regards
>Johnny :o)
>
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