[olug] MAKEDEV help please

[Terence bradshaw]

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> The scsi emulation is for cdburners, is this what you were setting up
> the ide-scsi emulation for?

Yes.  Exactly.


> you shouldnt have to change the mount point for anything, you should
> just have to use the SCSI address for the drive in your burner software.
> i.e. 0,0,0

I'm trying to use k3b, and to the best of my knowledge the programs that
k3b calls depend on the drive being mapped to "scd" type entries.  That's
the way it was under my Red Hat distribution (I learned all that the hard
way by messing up my fstab entries).

I have not seen anywhere in k3b that I can enter a SCSI address as you
mentioned above, but I'll take another look when I return home.

> does the drive show up under a scanbus?
>
> cdrecord -scanbus
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>

I ran this command earlier...I will run it again and let you know what it
says.

>>
>> If you are running Gentoo, then you have devfs installed, so you don't
>> need to do any makedev stuff.  Also, your CD is still IDE, so it will
>> be an IDE.  On my system (in which I use Gentoo w/ devfs) I just use
>> /dev/cdrom, which points to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, which points to
>> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd.
>>

After doing some more reading, you are right about devfs - even if I do
manage to make the changes, they will be gone on restart.  I'm not
confident yet, but there may be a missing modprobe command on startup...

Terry