I have a multi card reader and a cd burner. When the system boots sometimes the cd burner is scsi0 and the card reader is scsi1 ... sometimes it is the other way around.

I have to do a cdrecord -scanbus after boot to see which device is on which address and then I have to

etc to enable the luns for the last three slots on the card reader.

I would like to create a script that does this automatically at boot time once the burner and card reader are assigned addresses. I considered just writing the script to issue the command both ways, one way throwing the error and the other working... but this does not seem to be "good programming"

Is there a less klunky way to accomplish this?

thanks
ewto

i'm not sure this is gonna be less kludgey, but i kinda do the same thing for my laptop because my scsi-emulated dvd device can have dma enabled while my scsi-emulated zip drive can not and they both are modular bays sharing hdc. but i just write a script using hdparm -I /dev/hdc | grep "TOSHIBA" > /tmp/temp.txt and check that file to see if that file is 0 B in file size meaning the zip drive is in and to not try to enable dma. maybe you can do something similar with the cdrecord command you're using. send the output to a text file and analyze the text file through grep or something like that and start the script at boot up. i dunno.... just a thought....

thanks for your time.
I'll tinker with something like that and see what I can come up with... that's a very original way of addressing the problem. I like the way you think!

I'm open to anything.

ewto