Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Funny SCSI thing with 2.2.1 | Date | 14 Feb 1999 13:37:05 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.SOL.3.91.990213231934.16750B-100000@cerberus.cs.tu-berlin.de> By author: Raimi <raimi@cs.tu-berlin.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I wanted to write a CD as I did with 2.0.36 some weeks ago. The program I > used was "cdwrite" which uses the generic scsi devices to write. > > I made cdwrite use /dev/sg3 being my cdwriter but when it started it used > not the cdwriter but the harddisk containing my linux root filesystem !!!! > > The action luckily failed without error (besides a strange syslog message > I don't have here). The filesystem was not harmed but my partition table > was destroyed, I had to recover it with some DOS program... >
You *DO* know the generic SCSI devices are counted starting with zero (/dev/sg0), right? Look in /proc/scsi/scsi; each entry is one SCSI device.
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