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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Optical drive: od driver doesn't work Date: 4 May 1996 11:10:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4mfdup$lob@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4m6mnq$vu@usenet9.interramp.com> <4mdl5n$hqu@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E I wrote: > >Thanks to several who pointed out where I could find the od driver > >for optical disks. But even after patching my 2.1 kernel source with the > >od-driver.diff file, my drive still isn't recognized. It comes up as uk0 > >(unknown SCSI device). Is there anything else I have to do? > > > >Specifics: > > > >Quantum 1080 @ SCSI ID 0 > >Fujitsu 230MB MO drive @ SCSI ID 3 > > For a Fujitsu, this is surprising. Are you sure your drive is > properly setup to come up as `type optical'? Are you sure you have > actually included od0 into your config file (and rebuilt the kernel)? Just as a FYI: A full disk od0 at scbus0 target 3 is required, not just disk od0 only (as the original poster wrote me in private mail). config(8) didn't (doesn't ?) know about od drives. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)