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["Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

On 18 May 2004 at 15:13, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>russ loroville wrote:
>>
>> He has a scsi interface for this "optical" device, 
>> wouldn't he need a kernel that supports scsi 
>
>Yes.  Perhaps scsi.s from Slackware 7.1?
>
>> and also the associated scsi modules? 
>
>I know nothing about scsi, but that sounds right.
>
>> This kernel picks it up as hdd 
>
>I assume it is picked up as /dev/hdd because it is a
>slave on the second IDE interface.
>
>> but wouldn't  a scsi kernel  pick it up as sdd?
>
>I would expect scsi drives to use their own cables, not
>the IDE cables.  But, as I say, I know nothing about scsi.
>
>Cheers,
>Steven

Just a small misunderstanding here - my MO drive is SCSI, the one in 
question is IDE...

I see, from another message, that it's now working.  Interesting way 
that it was done...

Anthony Albert
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Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
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