Joe Ciccone wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> How robust is this? It would seem to work if there are two cdroms, but >> does it generalize to the admittedly unusual case where there are more >> than two? I'm not sure how the drives are recognized. I only have one >> and it is at "/sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-cdrom/0.0" What do the digits >> before and after the dot stand for? bus.device as in hda => 0.0 ... hdd >> => 1.1 ? >> >> Since my hard disk drive is sata and recognized as sda, would this work >> if I have a cdrom on hda and hdb? Hard coding the 1 doesn't seem to be >> right to me. >> >> > It seems to actualy be very robust, I just created a virtual machine > with a LOT of cdroms. > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom -> hdb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom0 -> hdc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdd > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom2 -> sr2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom3 -> sr3 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom4 -> sr4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom5 -> sr5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom6 -> sr6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom7 -> sr7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 14:24 /dev/cdrom8 -> sr8
That's cool. What happens if there is a cdrom on hda too? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
