Previously, Susan Macchia chose to write: > Bingo ! This was the problem! Doh...when I removed /dev/sr1 and changed > the minor number to 1, it worked fine! > > Thanks for everyone's help on this - an interesting learning experience. > But I am still curious why I have to have both cdrom/rw emulating scsi. > Why wouldn't my hard drives suffer the same problem? Please forgive my > sys-admin ignorance. >
AFAIK, you don't need SCSI em for either, unless you want to use them with the CD-burning software that's available under linux. For whatever reason, all the CD-burning software I've run accross requires that the burners be SCSI. The CD-ROM, if you want to burn on the fly, needs to be SCSI, too, or the software won't see it. Your hard drives don't suffer the same problem because, well, because they don't, that's why... or maybe it's because the OS is what needs to talk to your hard drives. The OS understands IDE, so SCSI-em is not required. (Although, if you're masochistic enough, you could probly convince the OS to use SCSI-em to talk to your HDDs...) Regards, Tim > > > IIRC, both of these drives are actually IDE and you're doin' > > > SCSI-emulation, right? And, you did some mknod's on your own, right? > > > From your previous post: > > > $ mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0 > > > and > > > $ mknod /dev/sr1 b 11 0 > > > > I never saw this snippet before, but this is obliviously (sic) an error. > > Thats a block device, major 11, minor 0 mapped to both /dev/sr0 and > > /dev/sr1 If /dev/sr0 gets mounted, then obviously /dev/sr1 is also > > mounted, thus 'busy' if you try to mount /dev/sr1 somewhere whilst > > /dev/sr0 is mounted. > > > > su root > > unmount all cd devices > > rm /dev/sr1 > > mknod /dev/sr1 b 11 1 > > ===== > _____________________________ > Susan Macchia > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _____________________________ > > - Running Linux - because life is too short for reboots... > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
