From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: cdrom in 0.98.pl6 ? Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 00:23:15 GMT
In article <1992Dec4.021130.64@gnusys.GUN.de> kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr) writes:
>OK, 0.98.pl6 compiled very fine, but my cdrom is not known. However
>isofs is now integrated in the kernel. Has the device major or minor changed?
>0.98.pl5 with iso0.98.pl4 worked very well. What has changed in pl6?
>
>My /dev/cdrom looks like this:
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>brw-r--r-- 1 root root 11, 0 Dec 4 02:07 cdrom
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>Any help is apreciated.
A number of people have been having trouble with cdrom and tapes, and
the problem basically boiled down the fact that we were not handling the case
of a drive with no media inserted at boot time. I have fixed this, and quite a
number of other things, and uploaded patches to tsx-11.mit.edu. These patches
are relatively large, but there are some changes/bugfixes/new features in the
tape code which are partly responsible for this.
The patches are on tsx-11.mit.edu in pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi, in the file
0.98.6.scsipatch2. If you are starting from fresh kernel sources, you will
need to obtain 0.98.6.scsipatch1 from the same location and apply those patches
before you try and apply the scsipatch2 diffs.
I have actually tried these and it all works for me. Hopefully your
mileage will not vary too much :-).
-Eric
-- Eric Youngdale