On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 at 12:44 GMT, Jean-David Beyer eloquently wrote:
> I am having trouble running cdrecord on CentOS 4.2.
>
> The first problem is that it wants to use the /dev/sg* devices to control
> the CD-ROM burner that is a PleXWriter 12/10/30S that is connected to the
> system through a SCSI controller in my system. Now this has worked perfectly
> well with Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9. I have made no hardware
> changes.
>
> But with CentOS 4.2, there are no /dev/sg* entries in /dev.
> So I created them with MAKEDEV, and then it would work (but not the same as
> before). But if I reboot, those /dev entries disappear.
>
> So what do I do to keep them there? There must be some setup file somewhere
> that either regenerates the entire /dev directory, or thinks it is smart
> enough to delete useless entries. What might it be?
Seems it uses udev to set that up. Look into this. I seem
to remember a while that ppl with nVidia graf cards had to
go thru some hoops to get their cards to function properly.
You'll need to follow what they did I believe.

N.Emile...
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