Re: tlug: Debian installation - scsi problem

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>      Selva> If it still doesn't work, I would think that /dev/cdrom is
>      Selva> not linked to the correct device. The first scsi device is
>      Selva> named /dev/sda, the second is /dev/sdb etc.. and partitions
>      Selva> within are named /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda15 etc. (Has this
>      Selva> changed in recent distributions?) If you dont have any
>      Selva> other devices on the scsi bus, the cdrom may be on
>      Selva> /dev/sda.  Try mounting that instead of /dev/cdrom. Once
>      Selva> you identify the correct device make /dev/cdrom a link to
>      Selva> that. (ls -l /dev/sd* will show you all the sd device files
>      Selva> you have -- whatever be the names, the first device has
>      Selva> major,minor = 8,0, the second is 8,32 etc...)
>  
>  This is all incorrect.  /dev/sd* devices are all r/w devices (mostly
>  hard drives but also including removables, Zips, Jazz, MOs, etc.)
>  (I'm not 100% sure, but I believe SCSI CD-R and CD-R/W are implemented
>  with the generic SCSI devices /dev/sg*, not /dev/scd*.  It's
>  definitely _not_ /dev/sd*, though; you just don't need all the
>  complicated caching and queuing for something that is written once as
>  a long stream.)

Oops.. Thanks for the correction.. 

Selva

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