SCSI DVD drive not recognized on fc3-t2 kernel 2.6.8-1.584

Neal D. Becker ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Tue Sep 28 12:02:29 UTC 2004


Allen Kistler wrote:

> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Harald Hoyer (harald at redhat.com) said:
>> 
>>>>sg isn't used for generic SG access... SG_IO can be used on the
>>>>device itself.
>>>
>>>so, what is it for now?
>> 
>> 
>> I came in late to the discussion - what specifically is erroring out?
>> 
>> Bill
> 
> SCSI devices which are not hard drives don't work.
> Their entries are not made in /dev by initrd.
> /dev entries can be made manually, but disappear after reboot.
> It worked long ago, in kernel build 534 days, with whatever version of
> udev, etc., got bundled into 534's initrd.  (Perhaps that version of
> whatever didn't delete /dev entries?)
> The OP saw it with a SCSI DVD-ROM.  I see it with a SCSI CD-R.
> Build 541 is just as guilty as 584.
> 
> I see other probably-SCSI problems (gnome-cd/cdp/cdplay no longer likes
> CDAs), too, but first things first.
> 

Sounds like the same problem I have - no /dev/[n]st0 for my scsi tape. 
aic7xxx is loaded.




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