Hi, Thomas Schwinge: > Unfortunately, i have not yet found the time to read the messages in your > other thread. So, I hope I'm answering the correct questions here, being > a bit out of context.
This new thread is about the newbie user problem to set up what i want to test on the long term. I am thankful for any proposal. > # settrans -cfgap /dev/sr0 /hurd/storeio sr0 I removed my mknod-made /dev/sr0 and executed above command. No protest message. # ls -l /dev/sr0 brw-r--r-- 1 root root 0, 0 Sep 15 14:17 /dev/sr0 But: # dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 bs=2048 skip=16 | strings dd: opening `/dev/sr0': No such device or address # > ... assuming that sr0 is the Mach device name. You can check if such a > device exists: # devprobe sr0 || echo no no # I read in gnumach/linux/src/drivers/scsi/sr.c: if (register_blkdev(MAJOR_NR,"sr",&sr_fo ps)) { For comparison: In gnumach/linux/src/drivers/scsi/sd.c: if (register_blkdev(MAJOR_NR,"sd",&sd_ fops)) { In gnumach/linux/dev/drivers/block/floppy.c: if (register_blkdev(MAJOR_NR,"fd",&floppy_fops)) But i see in /var/log/dmesg hd0: got CHS=1024/255/63 CTL=c8 from BIOS hd0: QEMU HARDDISK, 32768MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=4177/255/63, DMA hd2: QEMU DVD-ROM, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 FDC 0 is a S82078B Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! No SCSI card, so no SCSI CD-ROM ? man kvm on the hosting Debian amd64 does not tell much about SCSI other than examples how to set up emulated SCSI drives. The message about CD-ROM at hd2 comes even if i submit no -cdrom to kvm. Trying to read it then yields # dd if=/dev/hd2 count=1 bs=2048 skip=16 | strings dd: reading `/dev/hd2': Input/output error > Also, there is a /dev/MAKEDEV script. This seems to have no case that matches device name "sr". Have a nice day :) Thomas