On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 the mental interface of bob parker told: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:59, you wrote: > > Hey Bob, a Re: Bob? > > > > I just went through this recently, so I hope I remember this correctly: the > > device you want to operate as a CDROM needs to point to the SCSI device. > > > > In /dev/ > > make /dev/CDROM a symlink to scd0 > > > It already is indirectly, ie /dev/cdrom symlinks to /dev/cdrom0 which > symlinks to /dev/scd0. Reading from the scsi device is ok. It is the > ide device that got lost. > What I'm not clear on is whether I need to have the /dev/cdrom1 > linked to /dev/sc1 as it now is or /dev/hdb as it is ide. Link /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0. That's correct. Check wether you are in group cdrom and make sure /dev/scdo has rw access to group.
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 4. Nov 2001 /dev/scd0 -- Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads ;-)
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