Adding a SCSI CD-ROM

[Rob Brandt]

Quoting John M Phillips <phillipsjohnm@earthlink.net>:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Rob Brandt wrote:
> 
> > What are the proper steps to add a SCSI CDR drive to a Beige G3 running
> under
> > YDL 2.2?
> >
> > I assumed that I would simply connect the hardware and then add a line to
> fstab,
> > but I did this and when YDL tries to load I get an error:
> >
> > scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 1 channel 0
> id 2 lun 0
> >
> > This repeats for every id that isn't already in use (2-6).
> >
> 
> 1) It's not clear from your description, did you power down the system
> before connecting and powering-up the scsi drive if it was an external drive.
> Linux scans the scsi devices on boot-up.

Yep.

> 2) The scsi cdrom driver needs to be either compiled with the kernel, or
> loaded as a module.  The command "cat /proc/devices" should show
> 
> 	Block devices:
> 	  ...
> 	11 sr
> 	  ...
> 
> If this is not there, you may need to rebuild your kernel.

Nope.  I guess this shouldn't be surprising as YDL is made for Apple hardware,
and Apple hasn't used SCSI CD's for years.  I'll work on this.

Thanks.

Rob


> 3) With the driver in the kernel your first scsi cdrom device should be
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     root      11,   0 Mar 10  2002 /dev/scd0
> 
> Hope this gets you further.
> 
> John M Phillips
> 
> 
> 
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