Translated from http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux/2000-Aug/0305.html

DATE: August 02 2000

> > > white someone that/dev/sg0 is?
> >
> > one of the possibilities stands in for SCS industrial union Eric, and is
> > scsi cdrom to respond (e.g. when burning a CDR). The other one
> > possibility is/dev/scd0. You know also a DEVICE on that
> > in each case different left (however ask only one of both;)
>
> brings me on the question: Why my scsi DEVICES are called
>/dev/sr0 and/dev/sr1?

Oh. Hups. Property/dev/srX with/dev/sgX confounds.

Thus again (this time correctly):

/dev/srX =/dev/scdX = Scsi cdrom (blockly oriented, to read, also via scsi emulation ide scsi.

/dev/sgX = SCSI Generic Charakterorientert(!), to write of CDR(W)s

# l /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0 /dev/scd0
crw r -- r -- 1 root disk 21, 0 July 23 1999/dev/sg0
^
br -- r -- r -- 1 root disk 11, 0 July 23 1999/dev/sr0
br -- r -- r -- 1 root disk 11, 0 July 23 1999/dev/scd0
^

David Haller