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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:03:22 +1030

SCSI Woes

Hmmmm....

I've obtained a SCSI card that uses the sym53c8xx chipset. It works
fine, however I have a minor problem and/or misunderstanding. If I
perform the following actions manually:

# modprobe sym53c8xx
# modprobe sr_mod
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdc0 /mnt/cdrom

It works fine. The CDROM appears in /proc/scsi.

So, I thought, hmmm...I then tried:

# cat conf.modules
...

block-major-11 sym63c8xx
...

Because according to my kernel sources, block-major-11 is a SCSI CD
drive. However, if I do:

# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom

It loads the driver but complains the /dev/scd0 (or 1 to 7) isn't a
block device. If I modprobe sr_mod it works. If I rmmod sr_mod and then
remount the CDROM it works (even though sr_mod is no longer then)...

I'm confused. I think I've got the wrong driver in, or I need to specify
a block-minor as well or something like that...

Any ideas?

DL
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