Hi Cecil. I'm reading through the howto right now, and I'll probably find it. I am finding the read quite an interesting but difficult one. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cecil H. Whitley <cwhitley@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: Re: linking to dev cooridinates > Hi again, > The example they used was for a scanner and they aliased something like > /dev/scsi/sg0h0t0l00 to /dev/scanner. > Regards, > Cecil > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:03 PM > Subject: Re: linking to dev cooridinates > > > Hi Cecil. I'll check out the howto, but let me clarify. So assuming my > burner is at 0,0,0, the dev sr0 would be aliased to device located at 0,0,0 > in the scsi.alias file? That does sound interesting though. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Cecil H. Whitley <cwhitley at ec.rr.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 6:56 PM > Subject: Re: linking to dev cooridinates > > > > Hi, > > I was reading the scsi howto earlier today and ran across something you > may > > wish to pursue.... It indicated that if you were running scsiide that > there > > is a scsi.alias file in /etc that you can use to creatively rename the > > scsiide name (/dev/scsi/sr0xxxxxx) where the x's are the host adapter, > > target, lun, etc. I remembered this email at the time and had to locate > it > > here at home in order to reply to it. I found the howto on > > linuxjournal.com. Hope this helps. > > Cecil > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:34 PM > > Subject: linking to dev cooridinates > > > > > > Hi all. Don't know if anyone has tried this with Cdrw drives, but here > goes. > > I have not tested /dev/sr0 yet to see if I can mount the device using this > > file, but could I possibly create a link called cdr thatwill interface to > > 0,0,0? These are the coordinates that cdrecord uses to access my burner. I > > was thinking this just because then I could make sure that the device is > > going to work. Also, then put an entry in fstab, make it rw, then I can > just > > mv stuff from the disk to Cd without using cdrecord? Is this actually > > possible? Thanks! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup