From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fe8.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.55] helo=mail8.ec.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 175xuJ-0008UF-00 for ; Thu, 09 May 2002 20:05:11 -0400 Received: from kids ([66.56.241.175]) by mail8.ec.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 9 May 2002 20:05:15 -0400 Message-ID: <001c01c1f7b6$7b1d2260$ab00a8c0@ec.rr.com> From: "Cecil H. Whitley" To: References: <001e01c1f61f$b90f6ee0$02213e18@mycomputer> <009201c1f7ac$ce9b3bc0$ab00a8c0@ec.rr.com> <001501c1f7ad$c84d5a40$02263e18@mycomputer> Subject: Re: linking to dev cooridinates Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 20:06:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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" To: 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 To: 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" > To: > 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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup