Re: Problems with drives under suse 8.1

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:24, Gary Stanley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with a pretty standard default Suse 8.1 installation where
> by I have one Philips 1200 CD rewriter & a panasonic 106s dvd drive and
> Suse seems to be reconising them wrong.
<snip>
>
> Any help with solving these problems would be gratefully received......
>
Hi Gary,

Suse made a bit of a cock-up on the 8.1 distribution. They implemented SCSI 
emulation on all CD drives but didn't set up the device links corrrectly. The 
following fix was suggested

- Correct setup of SCSI Cds

> The symlinks in 8.1 are wrong.
>
> # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd
> # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
> # ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder
>
> Should fix it, if your DVD is 'hdc' and your CD-RW is 'hdd'

I won't pretend to understand it, but it worked for me (also a newbie).

There's also a bit of a permission problem. You need to do

chmod a+rw /dev/sg0

Apparently sg0 is the general scsi controller.

Problems like this come up frequently on the suse-linux-e list; you might be 
better off trying there.

Cheers,
TonyB