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trying to set up an optical drive

Trying to get my unix system to recognize an optical drive, it was delivered to us, so we assumed it worked, in the 2 years since no one ever has used it, we want to now. However, even running probe-scsi-all doesn't bring up that drive. It's a scsi address of 3, at the end of the chain, all terminated right, but it never sees it!!!!!!!!!! and what kind of device is it? how can i find out what a device is when attached to a computer? ex, i have a unix, sun os 5.5, the tape drive on it is /dev/rmt/0 and on my linux box it is /dev/st0 Now i only know this because someone else told me so and it works, but is there a way to figure it out if you have no clue what's on the box? I can see what partitions mounted where with df -k,

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mcd

MCD(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    MCD(4)

NAME

     mcd -- Mitsumi CD-ROM driver

SYNOPSIS

     mcd0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10
     options MCD_PROMISC

DESCRIPTION

     The mcd driver provides support for Mitsumi CD-ROM controller and drive on the isa(4) bus.

FILES

     /dev/cd[0-9][a-h]	  block mode Mitsumi CD-ROM devices
     /dev/rmcd[0-9][a-h]  raw mode Mitsumi CD-ROM devices

SEE ALSO

     intro(4), isa(4), ne(4), we(4)

BUGS

     The mcd hardware is  difficult to probe accurately.  Historically, the mcd probe would accept any return values as indicating that an mcd
     drive was present.  Other devices, particularly ne(4) or we(4), would then be incorrectly claimed by the mcd driver.  The driver now only
     accepts result codes known to indicate Mitsumi-compatible CD controllers, but may reject some mcd hardware which  returns other result codes.

     options MCD_PROMISC enables the  original promiscuous probe behaviour. Use with extreme caution.

BSD
								 November 29, 1994							       BSD

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