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Re: cd-rom went into hiding using ide-scsi



On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:52:17 -0500
Nathan E Norman <nnorman@micromuse.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:36:17AM +0300, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	does anybody know how to find my ide-scsi devices? They seem to be lost.
> > But  (root@wt1:root)# cat /proc/scsi/scsi  gives this:

> ide-scsi simply aliases ide devices into scsi namespace.  You need
> "SCSI CD-ROM Support" to use the drives as CD drives, and "SCSI
> generic support" to use the writer.
> 
> device names will be /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0 for the cd devices, and
> /dev/sg0 for the generic devices (obviously the 0 might be some other
> integer in your case).

yep, I forgot to compile "SCSI CD-ROM Support"
 in the kernel (duh) , now it all works. Thanks all.
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