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

J/ <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Message-ID <[email protected]>
AHA!  Was setup, but didn't have the right symlinks and for some reason
couldn't find what they were supposed to be pointing at.

Thanks for the help :) Worked perfectly.

J/

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 23:44, Ryan wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I should add that if ide-scsi is not loaded and you have something like
> hdc=ide-scsi as a kernel param, then nothing will show up when you do
> the above, you'll have to get ide-scsi going or remove the
> hd(x)=ide-scsi option from lilo/grub or whatever you use.
> 
> You can check /proc/cmdline to see what your kernel params are, mine
> says this:
> 
> auto BOOT_IMAGE=2.4.21 ro root=302 hdc=ide-scsi ide0=dma ide1=dma
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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