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General description

This section describes how to find proper "/dev/sg" device for CHARON mapping

Procedures of finding the target "/dev/sg" device

Method 1

Open a terminal console and issue:

# lsscsi -g

The output will look something like:

[0:0:0:0]    disk    VMware   Virtual disk     1.0   /dev/sda   /dev/sg0
[0:0:10:0]   tape    COMPAQ   SDLT320          5F5F  /dev/st0   /dev/sg9
[0:0:11:0]   tape    COMPAQ   SDLT320          5F5F  /dev/st1   /dev/sg10
[0:0:12:0]   mediumx COMPAQ   MSL5000 Series   0520  /dev/sch0  /dev/sg11
[4:0:0:0] cd/dvd NECVMWar VMware SATA CD01 1.00 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg

(info) If the "lsscsi" command is not installed on your system, use "yum install lsscsi" to make it available. If you cannot install "lsscsi", use method 2 or method 3 described below.

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Method 2

Open a terminal console and issue:

# cat /proc/scsi/sg/device_hdr; cat /proc/scsi/sg/devices

The output will look something like:

host    chan    id      lun     type    opens   qdepth  bus    online
4       0       0       0       5       1       1       0      1
5       0       0       0       0       1       1       0      1

The fifth field ("type") is the device type.

ValueDevice
0Disk
1Tape
5CD-ROM
8Tape changer

The "N" in the "/dev/sgN" is the line number in this table (starting from 0) corresponded to the devices CHARON-AXP will use.

Thus "/dev/sg0" will be CD-ROM mapping in this example.

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Method 3

On a freshly booted system, issue the following command:

# dmesg | grep sg

The output will look like that:

[ 1.503622] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[ 1.780897] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

(warning) This table lists all the devices, not only the real SCSI ones (SATA/IDE for example). CHARON supports only real SCSI devices.

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