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- From: rex@cs.su.oz.au (Rex Monty di Bona)
- Subject: Re: what is the driver for a CDROM
- Reply-To: rex@cluster.cs.su.oz (Rex Monty di Bona)
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:18:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.021812.15827@cs.su.oz.au>
- References: <1992Sep4.164835.3119@tandem.com>
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- In article <1992Sep4.164835.3119@tandem.com> chop_michael@.tandem.com (Michael Chop) writes:
- > does anyone out there know what the device driver is for a MIPS magnum
- > 3000, (3030). i've looked and looked through the man pages and even MIPS
- > itself, and can not find the device and SCSIid i should be using.
- >
- > HELP!!! somebody must have an external CDROM out there somewhere connected to
- > a MIPS...
-
- Firstly, what version of the OS are you running? I know 4.52 won't work
- with a CDROM (or I couldn't get it working, and after hacking the device
- driver it requires large changes to get it to work on 4.52) 5.0 should
- work, but I haven't used it.... Since the magnum 4000's come with CDROM
- one would expect it to work :-) Any scsi device under RISC/OS can be addresses
- as /dev/[r]scsi/sdc0d[device id]s[number] where the r is for character devices
- ie, tapes, the device id is the SCSI id and the number depends on the type of
- device, so, for example the Q120 tape can be accessed as either
- /dev/rscsi/sdc0d6s0, or as /dev/rmt/Q120-0
-
- crw------- 7 root sys 33, 96 Dec 2 1991 /dev/rmt/Q120-0
- crw------- 7 root sys 33, 96 Dec 2 1991 /dev/rscsi/sdc0d6s0
-
- Now, if only SGI would ship our machine I could test the CDROM out...
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- Rex di Bona (rex@cs.su.oz.au) Penguin Lust is NOT immoral
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