Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs - scd0&1 devices

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:29:06 +0000 Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:33:25 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:19:06PM +0000, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > I've got devfs working almost the way I want it.  The stock
> > > /etc/devfsd.conf retains the permissions I've set for sound devices,
> > but
> > > how can I make it hang onto /dev/scd0&1 for my ide-scsi cdroms?
> Right
> > now
> > > I have to do MAKEDEV each time I want to use them; they disappear
> with
> > > each boot.
> >
> > Use /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and 1 instead.
> > If you create new devices of the same type somewhere else in /dev,
> they
> > will
> > get backed up and restored as long as devfs is running.
> >
>
> Thanks.  Interestingly enough, devfs generates them on my system as
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom4 and cdrom6 !!!
>

I've just learned from a user on another group that devfs will add the
/dev/srn entries (expected by some applications) if you modprobe sr_mod,
so I've added sr_mod to my /etc/rc.d/config/modules.

both /dev/cdromn and /dev/srn are actually symlinks, ie
/dev/cdrom4 -> /scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd
/dev/cdrom6 ->  ...                         /target1/ ...

if only ide-scsi is modprobed, cdrom4 and cdrom6 are generated.  If sr_mod
is also present, cdrom0 and cdrom4 and sr0 and sr1 are generated.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Gentoo_rc5 XFCE