I discovered this while trying to get sound working on my desktop machine. Basically, a SCSI CD-RW that once worked has simply stopped working, as far as I can tell.
Details: the SCSI card is: 00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c810 (rev 23) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 8100S Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 and the CD-RW is an HP CD-Writer: joehill:/dev# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: E.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9200 Rev: 1.0c Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 04 I have used it before, both for writing and reading, on this machine so I know it works adequately. But I can't mount: joehill:/dev# mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device joehill:/dev# mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device joehill:/dev# mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom/ mount: /dev/sr0 is not a valid block device joehill:/dev# mount /dev/sr1 /cdrom/ mount: /dev/sr1 is not a valid block device Two questions: 1.) The small question: how can I tell what device (/dev/*) a given SCSI device is attached to? 2.) The big question: what should I do to diagnose this? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]