linking to dev cooridinates

[Igor Gueths]

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 at ec.rr.com>
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!
> >
> >
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