[CentOS] Problems with SATA DVD+-RW drive [SOLVED]

Wed Apr 4 22:35:16 UTC 2007
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On 4/4/07, Jay Leafey <jay.leafey at mindless.com> wrote:

> In order to make this fix permanent I added the following line to
> /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> install sr_mod /sbin/modprobe sg ; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sr_mod
>
> When the system detects a SCSI (or in this case SATA) CD device it
> automatically loads the sr_mod module to service the /dev/scd* device.
> This addition forces the sg (Generic SCSI) module to be loaded whenever
> the sr_mod gets loaded.
>
> Hope that helps the next guy!

Nice bit of information here. Have you tested this with the beta for
centos5 to see if it works out of the box there, or if a similar fix
is required?


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