Re: /dev/dvd /dev/cdrom help?

On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 14:04, J/ wrote:
> Greets again,
> 
> Ok, I had these working initially and don't know what I've done since
> then but NEITHER of them are working now...   at least half the time.
> 
> 
> I looked around and couldn't find a decent howto setup on these for
> linux on a Sony GRX600.   Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> I'm trying to get the DVD & CD properties of my DVD-R/W working .. not
> worrying about burning yet until I can get these working.  /dev/dvd and
> /dev/cdrom are no longer showing up.
> 

Not sure what you mean by 'not showing up', but I'll say what I know ...

These are both symlinks I made on my system:

ryan@vaio:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 ryan     disk            4 Apr  7 12:38 /dev/dvd -> scd0
ryan@vaio:~$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 ryan     disk            4 Dec  9  2002 /dev/cdrom ->
scd0

Do you have them?  Are they perhaps pointing to an emulated scsi device
but you don't have ide-scsi loaded?  If you don't have ide-scsi loaded
(check lsmod and /proc/scsi/ide-scsi/0) then you may want to point them
back to the proper unemulated device, hdc, hdd or which ever it should
be.  Or alternatively, get ide-scsi loading correctly :)

If you try the following, it should show sr0 under scsi emulation,
otherwise it will show the standard device name

ryan@vaio:/$ cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.12 2000/10/18
 
drive name:             sr0
drive speed:            24
drive # of slots:       1

Ryan