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From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: Mamoru Yamanishi <yama@o2.biotech.okayama-u.ac.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: bad device file for cdrom while using devfs and ide-scsi
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:16:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301170816.51641@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301171304.55582.yama@o2.biotech.okayama-u.ac.jp>

> [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".

Eike

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-17  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-17  4:04 PROBLEM: bad device file for cdrom while using devfs and ide-scsi Mamoru Yamanishi
2003-01-17  7:16 ` Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
2003-01-17 10:26   ` Mamoru Yamanishi

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