RE: Problems with drives under suse 8.1

Thanks for all the suggestions you guys are firing my way, the PC in
question is my home machine so I won't be able to let you all know if any of
these fixes work until I get home from work tonight .... But I will let you
know either way...


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Bloomfield [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:25 PM
To: Gary Stanley; '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] 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