On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Bryan A. Zimmer wrote: > 5 March 2001 1:50 PM > > > Dave (and others), > > Thank you for your replies. They made a lot of sense. > > The object would be to link the logical "cdrom" names to hardware > names of the scsi variety, such as "/dev/sr0" and "dev/sr1". > > Problem: when I went to try this out, I first checked my boot-up > "dmesg". This verifed that two drives, respectively termed sr0 > and sr1 were found (the latter being the CD-RW drive). > > But in the "dev" directory, there were no such listed devices as > "sr0, sr1" or anything close nearest "srnd..." (for random > numbers, I am presuming.) The sr devices are for scsi raw. You need to use the scd number for each that corresponds to the sr number. The sr device is used by the scd devices. sr0 = scd0, etc. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What the president of the Motion Picture Association of America says about taking away your constitutional rights: "I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away every one of these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; he threw out reverse engineering; he threw out linking." - Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ______ _ __ "If you don't have the freedom to use what you / ' ) ) own - then you do not own anything." / o ______ / / _ . . No apologies to Jack Valenti or the MPAA / <_/ / / < / (_</_(_/_ -- tneu at visi.com / http://www.visi.com/~tneu --