tlug: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:56:15 +0900

[ulrike@example.com]

Seems when I tried to post this before it did not make it to the list, since 
the post I sent afterwards has already made it  ... this is roughly what I 
wrote:

<selva> 
   I guess that /dev/cdrom is linked to /dev/sdc (by the way it is sdc, not
   scd, isn't it?). 
</selva>

In the installation instructions I used, which seem to be are a German 
translation of a previous version of 

http://www.debian.de/releases/slink/i386/install.en.txt

it was written that the first SCSI CD-ROM is named ``/dev/scd0''. In the 
current version above it says: 

* The first SCSI CD-ROM is named ``/dev/scd0'', also known as
  ``/dev/sr0''.

About /dev/sr0 the machine claims "special device /dev/sr0 does not exist".
BTW, I found out that /dev/cdrom does not exist either ...

<selva> 
   It seems either the device name is wrong or the scsi driver is not loaded. 

   First check the boot message to see whether the card is recognised at
   boot time. 
</selva> 

It seems to recognize the card, it prints (scsi0) in front of the warning 
messages I tried to cite in my previous post (BTW, is there any way to capture 
this? The interesting part flies by to quickly to copy everything by hand ...). 
Then it prints: "Failed initialization of WD-7000 scsi card!" Then a line 
starting with scsi0 and the name of the card. Then something like "scsi one 
host" and then something about scsi again which I could not copy in time (see 
request for capture above ...)

<selva> 
   Check /proc/modules to see whether aic7xxx is listed or not. 
</selva> 

No:

nls_iso8859_1      1		1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437          1		1 (autoclean)
vfat               4		1 (autoclean)
sg                 1		0
cdrom              1		0

But sg was the module I selected among the scsi stuff ... and cdrom ... ???
(Austin, before you pick on me again ... what was that you quoted on the admin-
list about stupid questions being allowed? Pity that the archive is not 
alive ..)

<selva> 
   If not /sbin/modprobe aic7xxx. 
</selva> 

It says that it can't locate the module.

<selva> 
   Check /proc/scsi/scsi to see whether the cd drive is detected. 
</selva> 

scsi: "Attached devices: none"

But there is also a file aic7xxx in the same directory.

Other question: "more" and "less" don't work since I have only installed the 
base system yet. Is there another way to look at the files? I helped myself 
with copying them to a floppy and reading them on another computer ...

<selva> 
   If it still doesn't work, I would think that /dev/cdrom is not linked to
   the correct device. The first scsi device is named /dev/sda, the second
   is /dev/sdb etc.. and partitions within are named /dev/sda1 to
   /dev/sda15 etc. (Has this changed in recent distributions?) If you dont
   have any other devices on the scsi bus, the cdrom may be on /dev/sda.
   Try mounting that instead of /dev/cdrom. Once you identify the correct
   device make /dev/cdrom a link to that. (ls -l /dev/sd* will show you all
   the sd device files you have -- whatever be the names, the first device
   has major,minor = 8,0, the second is 8,32 etc...) 
</selva> 

There are quite a lot of  files that match /dev/sd* ... /dev/sda did not work. 

Thanks for all the help, 

Uli



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