On 12/01/2002 12:09 PM, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

Somehow SuSE got confused and assigned my Samsung DVD to /dev/hdc which is correct, but then /dev/sr0 to the HP CD-Burner, and now I can't make heads or tails of how to get it back to where it belongs.

/dev/sr0 is also correct. That is the first scsi device, sr1 can't be used until sr0 is. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.

May I respectfully point out that, due to their nature, CDroms are essentially considered SCSI devices. If you have a Window OS installed somewhere, go into the registry and do a search for "SCSI" and you'll find your cdrom listed under this as well. I can't remember exactly why but if memory serves me it's to do with the way the firmware on cd devices works. Anyway, the cd/cd-ide modules and devs (aka dev/cdrom often is symlinked to dev/hdc or whatever a generic cdrom is listed as -- in my case hde, and dev/cdrecorder points to dev/sr0 -- meaning SCSI-recorder#0) needs to diferentiate and point to devices that serve as reader/players only and devices such as sr#, scd#, and/or sg# are often point to devices that are capable of writing and need modules such as ide-scsi loaded/configured. This also explains why a majority of CD writing software in Linux requires root privileges --- because it is a disc device with write abilities and is handled as any other disc with write privileges are in linux -- outside of a users directory root is the only one to have write privileges unless otherwise specified (hence why programs like Xcdroast, KonCD, K3B write programs have you give the root password on order to config devices and the program parameters for users). The DVD rom is essentially a large volume cd disc player and therefore falls under that category. Having it listed as hdc (or whereever it is on the ide motherboard interface and ribbon - ide0/1/2/3 and slave or master) is what is needed to be setup up in the devices. As far as having a connection from the CD/DVD directly to the sound card is probably true as well. You may also want to look at any potential connections (similar to the generic drive to soundcard connects) that are digital, These use the somewhat squared ended cables like that of the generic drive to sound cables but plugs into a slot in the CD/DVD marked as digital output connections to a corresponding place on the soundcard - such as my SBLive 5.1 card. Sometimes these give better digital output to the sound card and sometimes not. HTH, Curtis On Saturday 30 November 2002 22:09, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:56 pm, Jon Biddell wrote:

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=> 1. How do I straighten out the mess that has some how => screwed up my ability => to use the two cdroms I have (DVD and HP CD-RW)? => I have a DVD player, and an HP CD burner. Both on the => second channel of the => ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make => it /dev/hdc and => the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 => ( which I => believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I => manually set me CD => player to use /dev/sr0 and put a CD in the dvd ROM it => plays!!! So I change => the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn CDs!!!

This is interesting - I have exactly the same setup and my Samsung DVD (/dev/hdc) and my HP CD-RW (/dev/hdd) work fine - and have straight out of the box. I'm running SuSE 8.0.

I've resisted the upgrade thus far as this is stable - the only thing I can't get is Gnome2.

Well, stay were you are. 8.1 so far has been one horrible trouble after another. I know I'll know linux when this is all done because I'm constantly having to fix some broken something.

Somehow SuSE got confused and assigned my Samsung DVD to /dev/hdc which is correct, but then /dev/sr0 to the HP CD-Burner, and now I can't make heads or tails of how to get it back to where it belongs. Before that it was CUPS causing all manor of print problems, finally had to switch over to LPRng to fix that, before that it was sound, the "master" volume control only controls one output channel NOT both. Then there was the problem with the ATI video card, simple add OPTION "AGPMODE" "4" to XF86Config file to fix that. Then there was the 'can't get YOU to get an update to save my life. Found a tip on this list about setting passive mode to on for wget. Now, xmms is the only player that will play sound CD's howeit very softly, can't find the volume control to turn that up. May be that /dev/sg0 thing. And then there's the laptop. RedHat and Mandrake see the wireless card just fine, same with the battery levels and modem, but SuSE doesn't see a darn thing.

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