Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same problem with 16.04.
Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try that? Tomas On Jan 27, 2018 9:39 AM, "John Jason Jordan" <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > 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 > ls -la /dev/sg* returns: > crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Jan 23 16:33 /dev/sg0 > crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 1 Jan 23 16:33 /dev/sg1 > crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 2 Jan 23 16:33 /dev/sg2 > crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 3 Jan 23 16:33 /dev/sg3 > crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 4 Jan 23 16:34 /dev/sg4 > crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 5 Jan 26 23:00 /dev/sg5 > ls -la /dev/sr* returns: > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jan 25 17:46 /dev/sr0 > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 Jan 23 16:33 /dev/sr1 > > Synaptic lists no module 'sg,' although it does list 'sg3_utils and > 'sscsitools-gui,' which I installed. I can't figure out how to use > either one, no man pages and no way to launch the GUI. > > According to http://sg.danny.cz/sg/#mozTocId689512 the latest version > of sg is 3.0.19. > > If it matters, uname -a gives: > Linux Devil-Bonobo 3.13.0-139-generic #188-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 9 > 14:43:09 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I can't tell is the module is installed or not. Evidence is confusing: > 1) the program still can't find the devices > 2) lsmod doesn't find it > 3) modprobe returns no error messages > 4) ls -la /dev/sg* shows the devices > > I could use some suggestions. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
