On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:24, Gary Stanley wrote:
Hi All,
I have a problem with a pretty standard default Suse 8.1 installation where by I have one Philips 1200 CD rewriter & a panasonic 106s dvd drive and Suse seems to be reconising them wrong. <snip>
Any help with solving these problems would be gratefully received......
Hi Gary, Suse made a bit of a cock-up on the 8.1 distribution. They implemented SCSI emulation on all CD drives but didn't set up the device links corrrectly. The following fix was suggested - Correct setup of SCSI Cds
The symlinks in 8.1 are wrong.
# ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom # ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder
Should fix it, if your DVD is 'hdc' and your CD-RW is 'hdd'
I won't pretend to understand it, but it worked for me (also a newbie). There's also a bit of a permission problem. You need to do chmod a+rw /dev/sg0 Apparently sg0 is the general scsi controller. Problems like this come up frequently on the suse-linux-e list; you might be better off trying there. Cheers, TonyB