hardware browser and mounting scsi cdroms

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- "Robert F. Stockdale IV" <javabob at adelphia.net> wrote:

> I tried that command and it only shows my 2 working scsi hard drives. I
> have a dvd rom drive and a dvd-rw drive both of which are recognized by
> my system but do not show up under the " /sbin/fdisk -l"  command. I
> have a few issues with scsi on my current workstation, which is why I
> tried this.  I have one scsi hd in my tower and 2 in an external scsi
> box. I believe the first one in the external enclosure (should have been
> and was /dev/sdb) died that is why I currently run Gentoo. I had been
> running Suse when the first drive in the external box failed. Therefore,
> I'm only using the 2 hd's for now. Additionally, I have a CD-RW (Yahama)
> with an Acard atapi2scsi adapter that is not recognized as well. Funny
> thing is that this is the drive I used to install Gentoo from.
> Is there another option switch that will show all drives using that command?
> Bob
> 

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

fdisk -l will only show hard disks, NOT CDrom or other SCSI devices.



Dave J. Andruczyk

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