[Plug] Scsibus & cdrecord

[Adam Davin]

Help!!

When using:
	cdrecord -scanbus

My RH 6.2 system locks up completely.

/var/log/messages contains an entry (just before the restart) invalid major 
number 97??

I am running cdrecord 1.9. I have been through the cdwriter howto but can't 
get passed the scanbus command

Here is the messages output from root$ cdrecord -V -scanbus

Feb 15 22:20:29 owl modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-97
Feb 15 22:20:29 owl last message repeated 3 times
Feb 15 22:20:29 owl kernel: Bad segment list supplied to aha1542.c (1, 0)
Feb 15 22:20:29 owl kernel: 0: c0b10000 1 0
Feb 15 22:20:29 owl kernel: cptr c0001000: bc 00 01 fb fc b8 00 00 8e d8 8e 
c0 b
e 00 7c bf 00 7e <0>Kernel panic: Foooooooood fight!

When running the following (from the cdwriting howto)
      cd /dev/
      umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o-rwx
      ./MAKEDEV loop || for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod loop$i b 7 $i; 
done
      ./MAKEDEV sg   || for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod sg$i  c 21 $i; 
done

the 'loop' line reports:

./MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for loop

And the Scsi Adaptor Startup (compiled into kernel)

Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel:   Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: CD-R   CW-7502 
   Rev: 4.
16
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM 
                            ANSI SC
SI revision: 02
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, 
id 0,
lun 0
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel:   Vendor: UNISYS    Model: U0805 ST31230N 
   Rev: 02
34
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access 
                     ANSI SC
SI revision: 02
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 
1, lu
n 0
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel:   Vendor: UNISYS    Model: U0805 ST31230N 
   Rev: 04
34
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access 
                     ANSI SC
SI revision: 02
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 
2, lu
n 0
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks 
total.
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. 
Sectors= 20
69860 [1010 MB] [1.0 GB]
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. 
Sectors= 20
69860 [1010 MB] [1.0 GB]

Network Card
on another issue after recompiling the Kernel in the startup log I'm now 
getting this message from the network card startup
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker 
http://cesdis.g
sfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x6200, 
IRQ 9
, 00:c0:df:25:f1:8a.
*******************************************************
Feb 15 22:26:27 owl kernel: IP-Config: Incomplete network configuration 
informat
ion.
*******************************************************

Nothing has changed except for a Kernel /modules recompile and reinstall. 
Booting with the original kernel and modules and the error goes away. Any 
suggestions?

Thanks in Advance

Adam Davin