SCSI RW CDROM

[fjr at marsdome.penguinpowered.com (Frank Ramsay)]

> Hi,
> 
> I've got a CD/RW,CD-R disk player, but it doesn't seem to require
> anything calls 'sr_mod'.  It certainly uses the 'sg' kernel module
> (generic SCSI).  I have a Matshita CD-RW CW-7585 Rev 1.01 (which I can
> see when I run 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
> 
> FWIW, I have:
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 May 13 21:59 /dev/cdrom1 -> scd0
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk      11,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/scd0
> 
> (I did have to recompile my kernel to get this to work, FWIW)
> 

Thanks for the reply.  I had found a howto that mentioned needing that
module, but it must not be needed with the 2.2.x kernels.  Just to give
it a try, I made a raw image of a CD and ran cdrecord with it and it
worked!  So I guess I don't need the module after all. :)


					-fjr


-- 
Frank Ramsay
fjr at marsdome.penguinpowered.com




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