On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:13 pm, you sent an epistle: > 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.
Its to do with the fact that the cdroms are in fact ATAPI-scsi devices, the cdrw software was originally written by Adaptec and the scsi emulation is streaming and therefore has to be cleaner. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- To those who have been in harms way, to those that have made the sacrifice in humanities name. At the going down of the sun and in the morning I shall remember them. ------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Antoine aka "skippy" 18 Arkana St The Gap Queensland 4061 Australia PH 16 7 33002161 Retired Geriatric and Sometime Electronics Engineer : Knowall _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users