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  • From: "Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Re: What's an optical (MO) drive?
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:19:43 -0400

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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