[plug] SCSI and IEDE

[John Summerfield]

> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 03:11:51PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> ...
> > 
> >    Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt and discovered I need (but
>  
> > lack) /dev/sr0.
> > 
> >    A quick "mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0" and I can now read CDs.
> 
> 
> I have a MATSHITA CW-7502 on an Adaptec AHA2940, on /dev/scd0, with the
> same device numbers as yours (11,0).  I found it by doing
> 
>   for z in /dev/*cd* ; do mount -t iso9660 $z /mnt/cdrom ; done
> 
> This was a desperate move after running into a couple of brick walls.  I
> figured that one of those devices should work!
> 
> Did you try /dev/scd0?


The Linux kernel docs say /dev/sr0 and claim to contain the master list. I 
didn't find /dev/scd0 until later. I assume whoever created it did not 
read the documents.



> 
> 
> > 
> > Now to find how to toast/roast or otherwise burn CDs.
> > 
> > ps I'm running RHL 6.0. Does anyone know which rpm contains /dev/sr0? I
> > reinstalled the dev package which contains most devices (it's not entirely
> > impossible I'd damaged the installation) and that didn't  produce the
> > desired result. While the use of mknod was effective, it should not be
> > necessary.

I've found I have cdrecord, and I've read the docs and played with it a 
bit, but without trying anything more strenuous that blanking a RW disk.

Has anyone tried burning an image from an NFS-mounted filesystem? Since a 
EIDE drive died (the system simply does not find it) I don't have enough 
space on my workstation to create a 600 Mbyte or so ISO image.

My LAN's 100 MBS; I think it should be okay, but I want to be certain so 
that if something goes awry I don't have to worry about that.



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