[mythtv-users] Re: Autoplay of inserted CDs and DVDs

Tako Schotanus quintesse at palacio-cristal.com
Fri Jun 20 00:37:10 EDT 2003


Just curious, but both drives are DVD, only the second that replaced the 
first is a slim-line like the ones in laptops.
Could that be the difference as well?

And what determines if a drives supports SCSI emulation?

Rob Rogers wrote:

>* Tako Schotanus <quintesse at palacio-cristal.com>
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>>You were right of course, I had changed one drive for another and now
>>I 
>>had to use /dev/hdd instead of /dev/scd0.
>>Thanks for the reminder.
>>
>>I'm no Linux expert so can somebody explain why this change (from scd0 
>>-> hdd) happens?
>>Isn't scd0 supposed to be for SCSI drives? Both drives I used were IDE 
>>so why would it use scd0 at all and why would it change when changing 
>>drives?
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>That would happen if you were using scsi emulation, which Linux uses for
>dvd or cd-r(w) drives, and then switched to a drive that didn't do scsi
>emulation.
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