Re: How to link CD drive to /dev/cdrom?
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Howland <gregoryhowland@yahoo.com> writes:
Greg> Is there a way to assign the scsi emulation to the bus scsi0?
Short answer: change the order in which the drivers are initialized.
The easiest way to do this, is to change the order in which modules
are loaded. If you edit /etc/modules and put the ide-scsi module
before the SCSI driver, the internal CD-ROM becomes scd0.
If both drivers are compiled into the kernel, things get more
complicated. I would suggest you recompile your kernel, and specify
your SCSI card as a driver. Then add it to /etc/modules
Greg> Or, is there some other way to automatically create the correct
Greg> link so that I don't have to manually change it each time I
Greg> connect the external CD drive?
Put a script like this in /etc/init.d/cdroms:
#! /bin/sh
if grep -q "Vendor: <foo>" /proc/scsi/scsi; then
# Found external CDROM
ln -sf /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom
else
# Not found
ln -sf /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom
fi
Create a link to it in /etc/rcS.d:
update-rc.d cdrom start 99 S .
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