[ale] cd rw

[Jim Kinney]

The new cdrom devices will be listed as /dev/scdX

I found mine with a dmesg after a reboot. It will show the hardware prob
results. Be sure you turn off the normal IDE/ATAPI cdrom stuff. It will
conflict.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

> Trying to get my machine setup to use a new cd rw.  I'm having a heck of
> a time find docs on this stuff.  I've read the cd writer howto and a
> number of the scsi docs, both howto and kernel docs.
> 
> As I understand it, my cd rw and my existing cdrom will now 'talk' scsi
> using the generic scsi driver.  I've rebuilt my kernel and find all
> these new modules under scsi and misc.
> 
> Does anyone have any urls that spell out the specifics on this.  I've
> always found dynamic loaded modules docs to be lacking in the specifics
> of exactly how to get things loaded and such.
> 
> Anyone have an existing setup they'd care to share /etc/conf.modules?
> 
> I'm assuming her that my /dev/hdd cdrom will now be /dev/sd? something,
> but can't find any info on this.  Any doc pointers would really be
> appreciated.
> 
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