[Techtalk] Multiple instances of my CD-RW and DVD drives

[Alain Tesio]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:34:45 -0500
Gretchen <gretchen at gretchenann.com> wrote:

> > Check that the devices have different mode numbers, eventually
> > fix them with MAKDEV /dev/scd*
> > Does cdrecord -scanbus see the same thing ?
> 
> cdrecord -scanbus does see the same thing, How would I check the mode
> numbers?

All devices are supposed to have a different number in the output
of "ls -l" or "stat" :

#ls -l /dev/scd*

brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   0 Nov 30  2000 /dev/scd0
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   1 Nov 30  2000 /dev/scd1
...

It's MAKEDEV /dev/scd* to rebuild them.

Alain