On Tue, 18 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > > /dev/scd0       /cdrom      iso9660     noauto,user,ro
> > > 
> > /dev/scd0 is exactly equivalent to /dev/sr0.
> 
> The question concerned the appropriateness of SCSI entries in /etc/fstab.

I thought it more concerned the appropriateness of CDROM entries in
/etc/fstab, but anyway..

> Nevertheless, on Slackware as of 3.6 there are no /dev/sr* device names.
> Has some distribution gone this direction?  The recent (June 1999) Linux

RedHat 5.2 and 6.0 both certainly do.

I believe that scd0 used to be the standard, but it changed to sr0 some
time ago.  The kernel documentation for kernels 2.0.36, 2.1.103, 2.2.* all
refer to them as sr0 (I don't have any older kernels handy to check).

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Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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