Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932686AbWKEOAP (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:00:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932689AbWKEOAP (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:00:15 -0500 Received: from smtp.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.8]:1810 "EHLO mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932686AbWKEOAN (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 09:00:13 -0500 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: Scsi cdrom naming confusion; sr or scd? Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:00:11 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061105100926.GA2883@pelagius.h-e-r-e-s-y.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611051400.11918.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 27 On Sunday 05 November 2006 11:33, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > "The prefix /dev/sr (instead of /dev/scd) has been deprecated" > > > >but booting 2.6.18.2 from a scsi CD only works if I pass the kernel > >parameter root=/dev/sr0 and fails with root=/dev/scd0 > > > >I guess the kernel ought to be taught about the scd* names aswell? > > brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 Mar 19 2005 /dev/scd0 > brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 Mar 19 2005 /dev/sr0 > > Plus I see sr0 being far more commonly used than scd0. > So I guess the doc is wrong. udev only creates /dev/sr0, so I'm inclined to agree. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/