This reminds me of something else I see come up ... anyone know what the
module 'hw_random' is used for? The kernel responds during boot that RNG is
not available and then complains it can't install hw_random. No impact on
system performance.
Running Debian (upgraded from a Kanotix live CD)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 12:51 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] reading CDs or DVDs in a writer
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Levi Bard wrote:
>
> > > So the drive itself reads fine, it's just the device I was trying to
> use
> > > that's no good? What is the correct device to mount?
> >
> > Odd, in my experience it would be /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0 , both of
> > which you seem to have tried with no success. Does it help if you
> > specify the filename explicitly as iso9660 ?
>
> Doesn't seem to:
>
> [root@pc dev]# mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/temp -t iso9660
> mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device
>
> I did some more sleuthing, and found that the line
>
> Dec 13 12:28:13 pc modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-11
>
> (current date, of course)
>
> gets added to /var/log/messages whenever I try, so it seems either I need
> to
> add "alias block-major-11 <something>" to /etc/modules.conf OR that alias
> is
> default, and I just have to compile the target. A little googling showed
> the likely candidate to be sr_mod. Hey, I don't know why that wasn't
> compiled; it had been under previous versions. Maybe I figured that
> since
> I didn't have a real SCSI CD any more (I used to), I didn't need it.
>
> Anyhow, I did 'make dep modules', then as root 'cp
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.26/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.o
> /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/scsi' and 'depmod' and it seems to
> work,
> without modification to /etc/modules.conf.
>
> --
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