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Kemdi - Last night I installed the new SCSI based Toshiba DVD to my existing SuSE 7.1 working box and messed things up a bit. A bit of help in getting things back to order would be greatly appreciated. Background Assignment of generic SCSI devices, device host/channel/ID/LUN type (numeric type) vendor model: /dev/sg0 0/0/3/0 Scanner UMAX Astra 2200 /dev/sg1 0/0/4/0 CD-ROM PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W124TS /dev/sg2 0/0/5/0 Scanner Nikon COOLSCAN II /dev/sg3 0/0/6/0 CD-ROM NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:466 /dev/sg4 0/0/12/0 Direct-Access IBM DRVS09V /dev/sg5 0/0/13/0 Direct-Access IBM DDYS-T18350N /dev/sg6 0/0/14/0 Direct-Access IBM DDYS-T18350N /dev/sg7 0/0/15/0 Direct-Access IBM DDYS-T18350N With this setup everything worked as advertised and Sane listed both the Astra 2200 and the CoolScan II as options when it ran. I have created application links (desktop - [kde 2.0.1] icons to click on to run the programs) for the Astra 2200, Cd player (Plextor - for playing music), CoolScan, and one each for both Cds, Plextor and NEC, just for mounting. All these work appropriately. ------------------ With all this working, I then shut down the box and installed the DVD drive. Boot failed until I set the timing to asynch and then boot went smooth. I added a line to /etc/fstab for the DVD identified below by the >> << marks /dev/sdb3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc4 /zip vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hde1 /hardcard auto rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 and created a desktop link for the DVD drive. sgcheck now reports the following: Assignment of generic SCSI devices, device host/channel/ID/LUN type (numeric type) vendor model: /dev/sg0 0/0/2/0 CD-ROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1401 /dev/sg1 0/0/3/0 Scanner UMAX Astra 2200 /dev/sg2 0/0/4/0 CD-ROM PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W124TS /dev/sg3 0/0/5/0 Scanner Nikon COOLSCAN II /dev/sg4 0/0/6/0 CD-ROM NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:466 /dev/sg5 0/0/12/0 Direct-Access IBM DRVS09V /dev/sg6 0/0/13/0 Direct-Access IBM DDYS-T18350N /dev/sg7 0/0/14/0 Direct-Access IBM DDYS-T18350N /dev/sg8 0/0/15/0 Direct-Access IBM DDYS-T18350N wherein all the sg numbers for the hardware have advanced up one unit, i.e., 0 -> 1; 1 -> 2; 2 ->3, and so forth. I then tried to run the Astra 2200 but Sane said it couldn't identify any SCSI item. Realizing that this might happen, I then turned to yast1 in console mode and did the following: 0 Yast1==> 1 System Admin ==> <continue> 2 Integrate Hardware ==> <continue> 3 CD/DVD configuration ==> <continue> 4 SCSI [ /dev/sr? ] ==> <continue> 5 SCSI cd 0 [ dev/scd0 ] ==> <continue> which puts me back to line 3 no matter what I do. Since I can't get this configured, it appears that I can't configure the others either, so I'm now sort of dead in the water device wise. To make this just a little more challenging, my CD drives are now somehow crossed linked. Using the desktop icons, the DVD icon addresses nothing; the Plextor icon addresses the DVD drive; and the NEC icon addresses the Plextor. Whatever is in the NEC drive is not recognized. The identity of each on the desktop link (icon) is as follows: DVD /dvd trying to mount this device gives the error "mount: special device does not exist" Plextor CDR-W /dev/cdrom mounting this device reads the DVD NEC CDROM2 /dev/cdrom2 mounting this device reads the Plextor drive So, may I request a little help in getting all this resolved by a means other than removing the DVD drive? ;-) Changing ID numbers is NOT the answer as all have options only between 0 and 7; if the DVD had offered a number between 8 and 11 I would have selected that and avoided all this "interesting" behavior. thanks, dave