Is it possible that sg3-utils and/or sg3-utils-udev is what you need? They seem to relate to the same stuff the posted comments mentioned.
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 6:01 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:39:12 -0800 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > >Xubuntu 14.04.5, all updates applied. > > > >I have a program that can't find ether of my optical drives, /dev/sr0 > >and /dev/sr1. Apparently there is a new module, 'sg,' that calls > >them /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1, and those are all that the program will > >look for. I can't tell if I have the module installed or not: > > > >sudo modprobe sg - returns nothing, no error messages > >lsmod | grep sg - also returns nothing > > OK, I think I just found out that sg is NOT loaded. From the forums for > the application someone posted: > > I have sg loaded, i.e.: > # lsmod | grep sg > sg 29973 0 ll /dev/sg* > scsi_mod 191405 4 sg,libata,sd_mod,sr_mo > > But when I do the same thing I get no results. > > Now I have to figure out how to install sg. Synaptic doesn't list it, > at least not by the name 'sg.' Google doesn't know either, at least I > have not been able to get Google to divulge the secret. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
