On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Tom Loscheider wrote:
> Stew, > Thanks for the quick reply AND all the hard work. > > None of this helped. It is as if the kernel doesn't recognize the device is a > cd-rom. It does see the drive at the proper place in the scsi chain. The > drive is correctly reported after booting in the KDE Control Center > > Information > SCSI, and during boot process. > > I did some experimenting with different scsi devices. If I add a hard drive, > the kernel creates correct device files in /dev/scsi/*. It does the same with > ide devices. BUT, it doesn't do a thing with a scsi CD other than create an > empty /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0. I tried two different cd drives > with the same result. > It doens't seem to recognize that it is a CD-Rom drive or a block device even > though it correctly gets the info from the drive at boot: > /var/log/messages > <snip> > Mar 8 11:45:56 G3 kernel: Vendor: SONY Model: CD-R CDU948S Rev: > 1.0j > Mar 8 11:45:56 G3 kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI > SCSI revision: 02 > Mar 8 11:45:56 G3 kernel: scsi1 : MESH > > I'm also getting a boot message that is something like "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules > line 17 234 segmentation fault" that might be related. I can't find the error > in any of the logs, but it does flash by during the boot messages. > > Coud this be a bug? > Thanks > Tom L > Quite odd, I'll have to throw a SCSI CD drive on my machine and see what happens. The 7600 is SCSI natively, and it seems to show up there. The segfault is a different issue. Some program is putting an entry in /etc/modules that should not be there. x86 has the same problem, and no-one seems to know where it comes from. That file should only have the names of valid modules. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
