[Fwd: Re: [oclug]missing cdrom]

Bob Lockie bjlockie at lockie.ca
Fri Oct 18 15:21:13 EDT 2002


Wrong machine.
How do I get X to display the output on my machine.
10.0.04 is the machine I want to run X programs on, 10.0.0.10 is the 
machine I want to display X programs on.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [oclug]missing cdrom
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:14:31 -0400
From: Bob Lockie <bjlockie at lockie.ca>
Reply-To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
References: <3DB051F2.40201 at lockie.ca> <3DB053D7.5050607 at uottawa.ca>



Mike Carignan wrote:

> Bob Lockie wrote:
>
>> I've tried everything (except the one that works).
>> /dev/sda1 is a USB Smart Media reader (is sda1 the same as sg2 (which 
>> is the same as sg/c1b0t0u0?).
>
>
> When you use scsi-emulation via those commands in grub/lilo, the 
> actual CDROM is on /dev/scd0 (scd1,2,3,etc.).  /dev/sg0 is raw scsi 
> access IIRC, which is what cd writer programs use to burn.
>
>>
>> I have 2 IDE cdroms (on cdrw and one cdr).
>> I want to mount them both but there is are no devices for either.
>> I added "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" to grub to make them both show up 
>> in xcdroast.
>> I still want to read from one outside of xcdroast, right now it seems 
>> mutually exclusive.
>
>
> If you have it setup like that to see it in xcdroast, you can use it 
> as a regular scsi CDROM drive to read etc. by mounting it from /dev/scd0. 

I have no /dev/scd* devices. :-(

I turned on debuging in xcdroast, maybe I can figure out where it gets 
the devices from.

DGB2: ------ cdrecord scsidevices-structure -----
DGB2: 0:1          CD-R/RW RW7040S  1.40 1,5 (alt: -1) (ssize: 2048)
DGB2: 1:0 PIONEER  DVD-ROM DVD-106  1.09 1,5 (alt: -1) (ssize: 2048)

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