[Sussex] /cdrom question

[Steve Dobson]

Hi Gavin

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:05:20AM +0100, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> In the course of installing Star Office yesterday, I ran a file search for 
> "so*" & accidentally found a file "/dev/sonycd".
> 
> I'm just wondering if this might be connected in some way to my machine's 
> problems in reading the Debian 3 CDs.. Or it might be nothing to do with it 
> at all.
> 
> I checked /dev/cdrom & it is pointing to cdrom (audio CDs & every data CD 
> apart from the Debian 3 CDs work fine). I haven't yet tried recording 
> anything onto CD (I do have the ide-scsi module present).
> 
> So, when I right clicked on the /dev/sonycd file in Gnome Programme Manager 
> & selected Properties, it said it was a "block device" & was in the group 
> "cdrom". The icon for /dev/sonycd looks like the inside of a Hard Disc & 
> there are many files with this icon present in /dev & some other 
> directories.
> 
> What I'm not sure about, is whether this /dev/sonycd is in some way 
> influencing my CD-R, which isn't a Sony CD at all - it's a Philips CDD3610 
> CDR/RW.
> 
> Any thoughts welcome,

A quick check of the kernel source points at documentation for the
Sony CDU-535/531 driver.  I suggest that you read that.
If you have the kernel source installed as most do then the file
is: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/sonycd535

Steve