Warty installer does not create SCSI device

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:35:38 -0800, Eric Potter <ecp62 at charter.net> wrote:
> What exact command did you use to make /dev files for scsi cdrom?
> I need scd0 and scd1.  I'm looking at the MAKEDEV script right now
> but I haven't had success yet.

I don't have any idea what scd0 and scd1 would point to -- I'm not
familiar with those. In fact, I don't know much at all about devices
so I would feel a lot more comfortable if the system had set them up
for me.

Here's what I did to create my sg ("SCSI generic?") devices:

 cd /dev
 sudo MAKEDEV -v sg

This should create a bunch of sg files in /dev. 

Next you need to set the permissions in a way that you can use them.

The easiest way is to make sure your user is a member a group such as
cdrom and then make sure the /dev/sg0 file is in the cdrom group and
that its privileges give rw access to that group. (Remember after
adding yourself to a group you have to log out and back in for it to
take effect.)

Lots of software will look for a symbolic link too --

ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/cdrom

for example.

So now I've written about 3/4 of the HOWTO ... but it's late and I
should start fresh tomorrow... did I cover what you wanted to know?