Can DVD burner and floppy coexist in RH7?

**Midnight Tech** · 04-03-2005, 10:48 PM

We were told by our support folks that if we have a SCSI DVD burner in our work machine, it forgets about the floppy. Anybody ever seen such a thing and is there a workaround?

Skie · 04-03-2005, 10:59 PM

Are you seeing this or is this just what you're told? I don't see why this would happen, but stranger things have happened. The floppy should be at /dev/fd1 and the SCSI drives should be at /dev/sdaX (where X is the number in the chain).

As long as there isn't a major flaw in the kernel, I don't see this happening. Although RH7 is a pretty old distro, I have used RH 7.3 just not with SCSI drives.

**Midnight Tech** · 04-03-2005, 11:20 PM

That's what I thought Skie...they're "mnt"ing to two totally different devices. They told me this but I think it may be a way to keep the more savvy folks from booting with a floppy.
Luckily I've acquired a SCSI external CD burner...have to test theory with it on my Linux box...also gonna figger out how to make an emergency LILO bootdisk for the one at work!
Thanks!

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04-03-2005, 10:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
Skie Manager, Alternative Comp Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Downers Grove, IL Posts: 1,821 OS: Gentoo Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS My System	Are you seeing this or is this just what you're told? I don't see why this would happen, but stranger things have happened. The floppy should be at /dev/fd1 and the SCSI drives should be at /dev/sdaX (where X is the number in the chain). As long as there isn't a major flaw in the kernel, I don't see this happening. Although RH7 is a pretty old distro, I have used RH 7.3 just not with SCSI drives. __________________

04-03-2005, 11:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
Midnight Tech Admin/Head GreaseMonkey/Igor's alter ego/Grand Exalted PoohBah Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: SC Posts: 2,628 OS: Windows XP SP2/Windows 98SE/Fedora Core 6/RH 7.2 with Autopoint	That's what I thought Skie...they're "mnt"ing to two totally different devices. They told me this but I think it may be a way to keep the more savvy folks from booting with a floppy. Luckily I've acquired a SCSI external CD burner...have to test theory with it on my Linux box...also gonna figger out how to make an emergency LILO bootdisk for the one at work! Thanks! __________________ If you know anyone who graduated from North Myrtle Beach (SC) High in 1988, please contact MT for reunion information. Sharing my life...with my Imzadi! Interested in Trek gaming? Check out the Dynaverse! Proud supporter of the Carolinas Aviation Museum. If we have helped you in any way, please donate to keep TSF up and running!