Messages in this thread | | | From | Rolf Eike Beer <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: bad device file for cdrom while using devfs and ide-scsi | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:16:51 +0100 |
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> [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > > I use Kernle-2.4.20 with devfs and ide-scsi. > "devfs" is mounted at boot. > > I wonder that the symbolic-link to actual device file of cdrom is not > correct, which is placed in /dev as > > "cdrom0 -> ../scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd" > > It should be placed in subdirectory /dev/cdroms, or it should be > linked to "scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd", I think. > > Without ide-scsi, there is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 which is correctry > linked to actual device file. > > I was looking around the kernel source codes, but I cannot find > where it was.
Are you sure that sr_mod is loaded? After installing ide-scsi the cdrom drive is a scsi cdrom so you must load the scsi cdrom driver (module sr_mod). If it is not in the `lsmod` output you should try "modprobe sr_mod".
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