[wplug] TekRam & Plextor

[jmh3 at linuxfreak.com]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, jjlasalle wrote:

> Santa brought me a TekRam dc390u2w SCSI controller. Red Hat 6.2 found it 
> with Kudzu no problem. Also found my Seagate Scorpion DDS2 tape drive. RH 
> 6.2 will NOT find my Plextor CDROM drive.  The tape drive terminates the 
> SCSI chain with ID3. The Plextor sits in the middle with ID 5.  The SCSI 
> BIOS finds both devices and booting from an MSDOS floppy allows me to read 
> the Plextor drive. I tried mounting /dev/sr0 and /dev/sdc0 without success. 
> I looked through dmesg but there is not mention of a SCSI CDROM. What to 
> try next? I never installed a SCSI tape drive under RH so I was expecting 
> trouble there. Go figure. :)
hey.

some silly, but necessary questions:
is the  cdrom drive terminated?
is your kernel comfigured to support scsi cdroms? it's under scsi support.
what id is your controller set to?


john


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