Re: Scsi cdrom naming confusion; sr or scd?

[Jan Engelhardt]

> "The prefix /dev/sr (instead of /dev/scd) has been deprecated"
>
>but booting 2.6.18.2 from a scsi CD only works if I pass the kernel
>parameter root=/dev/sr0 and fails with root=/dev/scd0
>
>I guess the kernel ought to be taught about the scd* names aswell?

brw-r-----  1 root disk 11, 0 Mar 19  2005 /dev/scd0
brw-r-----  1 root disk 11, 0 Mar 19  2005 /dev/sr0

Plus I see sr0 being far more commonly used than scd0.
So I guess the doc is wrong.


	-`J'
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