On Sun, 23 May 1999, Daniel Knapp wrote:
> > > 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).
>
> And I've seen SuSE 5.2, 5.3 and 6.0 use srX-devices, too.
>
> Kernel documentation for 2.0.35 refers to sr0, too.
>
>From a quick(ish) grep, the first reference in kernel documentation is
round about 1.3.40.
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