Finding the target "/dev/sg" device

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General description

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

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

First method

In xterm console issue:

The output will look something like:

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

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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Second method

On a freshly booted system please issue the following command:

The output will look like that:

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