Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:59:48
Message-Id: 20010707140924.4820bb9c.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5 by Daniel Robbins
1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 13:02:45 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> wrote:
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3 > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:52:56PM +0000, Collins Richey wrote:
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5 > > The supplied MAKEDEV apparently has nothing for /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 (ide
6 > > CDROM devices, IDE-SCSI).
7 >
8 > Use scd and /dev/scd0 instead.
9 >
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11 OK, I did that, and I can mount CDs using /dev/scd0&1. The question is: is this the complete equivalent of /dev/sr0&1 (including using the device sr0 (a CDRW) for burning new cds? Why does every other distro (that I am aware of) use sr0&1?
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15 Collins Richey
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17 Gentoo_rc5 XFCE