Linux-Misc Digest #226, Volume #27 Sun, 25 Feb 01 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: RAID-1 under 2.2.18 or 2.4.2? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RAID-1 under 2.2.18 or 2.4.2? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Is my CDRW detected correctly? (holcomb)
Re: help! new kernel - can't mount cdrom (holcomb)
Re: Help--Program exists, but can't execute ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Newbie: Newly Installed GNU software. (Mike Perry)
Re: svgalib I/O permission (Mladen Gavrilovic)
Re: Linux not free anymore? (WarpKat)
Re: Where's the physical address of kernel function after linked... ("Tauno Voipio")
Mircosoft Tax (Brent Pathakis)
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Monte Milanuk)
Re: Web page publishing (Monte Milanuk)
Re: HELP on /etc/passwd (Joachim Feise)
Re: Please visit my 3D graphics site ("Robert Francois")
Re: screensavers in redhat (Glitch)
Re: data recover after mkfs (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
please help with setting su password (richard noel fell)
Re: Odd Question (Elf Sternberg)
Re: help! new kernel - can't mount cdrom (Glitch)
Re: help! new kernel - can't mount cdrom ("Chris Coyle")
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RAID-1 under 2.2.18 or 2.4.2?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:04:25 +0100
In comp.os.linux.setup Rosmus Bog Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Ken Williams wrote:
>> I plan on implementing software RAID1 on my new linux box with twin scsi
>> barracudas. Can 2.2.18 do it well or should I be looking at 2.4.2 instead? I
>> need it to work well the first time with no problems.
> With 2.2.18, you have to download a raidpatch if your distro does not
No you don't. RAID1 has been part of the standard kernel forever. Since
1.2 days at least.
> believe the code is very stable in 2.2.X.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RAID-1 under 2.2.18 or 2.4.2?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:01:30 +0100
In comp.os.linux.setup Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I plan on implementing software RAID1 on my new linux box with twin scsi
> barracudas. Can 2.2.18 do it well or should I be looking at 2.4.2 instead? I
2.0.38 can do it as well. So can 1.2.14.
> need it to work well the first time with no problems.
> Can anyone suggest anything? What should I know or do? Is the RAID code in
> 2.2.18 just as good as it is in 2.4.2?
No it'll be a lot better, since 2.4. i snew and untried, and 2.2. is
old and trusted, And
raid1 will hardly blow your mind. Raid 10 or thereaboust is where you'd
be looking at new code.
Peter
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From: holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is my CDRW detected correctly?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:30:07 -0000
I am no expert based on my recent posts, but your CDRW unlike regular CD
drives will be recognized as a SCSI device. I had to do a symbolic link,
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom in order to play audio CDs. This is normal from
what I have been told on this message board.
fafaforza wrote:
>
> Below is my dmesg. I believe that my drive is being recognized as an SCSI
> one, and when I mount it I use /dev/scd0 and it works. I believe I have
all the
> modules loaded:
>
> ringa:~$ /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> sr_mod 16380 0 (unused)
> sg 14872 0 (unused)
> scsi_mod 58280 2 [sr_mod sg]
> ide-scsi 6912 0
> ide-cd 23312 0
> ....
>
> but when I run cdrecord -scanbus:
>
> ringa:/opt/schily/bin# ./cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling
> ./cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI
driver.
> ./cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you
are root.
>
>
> And here is DMESG output:
>
> Linux version 2.2.13 (root@zap) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1
> .1.2 release)) #127 Thu Oct 21 13:13:20 CDT 1999
> ...
> ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
> ...
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: IBM-DTLA-305020, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: R/RW 4x4x24, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: IBM-DTLA-305020, 19623MB w/380kB Cache, CHS=2501/255/63
> ...
> scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
> ...
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2
> ...
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: IDE-CD Model: R/RW 4x4x24 Rev: Z024
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> ...
>
> I think the SCSI emulation is fine. Maybe there is a module I am missing.
> I do have all the devices, I ran both scripts in the CD Writing HOWTO.
>
> Thanks for any info.
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From: holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help! new kernel - can't mount cdrom
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:30:08 -0000
What is in your /etc/fstab concerning your CDROM drive? Is your cdrom
device /dev/cdrom0 or perhaps /dev/cdrom. You may need to use the full
mount statement. There might be some messages concerning your failure in
/var/log/messages. JH
Chris Coyle wrote:
>
>
> Help! anybody please
> I'm using RH6.2
> I just installed kernel 2.2.17-14 from the rpms from RH (RHSA2001:013-05)
> and now I can't mount my cdrom!
> The messages I'm getting are:
>
> > mount /dev/cdrom0
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom0,
> or too many mounted filesystems
>
> Although I fairly newbie I don't think I really screwed up the install
> because:
> (a) everything else seems to be OK - I just can't mount my cdrom
> (b) I did this before, installing 2.2.16 a few weeks ago. I had no
problems
> at all, and that one's still working fine.
>
> How do I begin to find the problem? Are there more details about the
failure
> being logged somewhere? Do I need to check the kernel configuration?
>
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help--Program exists, but can't execute
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:46:29 GMT
Chris Carlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Uwe Malzahn wrote:
> The nature of the error is very peculiar. It seems to be saying that
> the file /opt/eagle/bin/eagle.sav doesn't exist, although we can clearly
> see it exists and has correct permissions to execute. In fact, that
> very file will execute successfully, when it is executed from the
> environment of Suse Linux 6.2 That says that the problem is not 1.
> there is a missing file (if there was a missing file then I couldn't run
> eagle from the Suse 6.2 environment) 2. there are missing libraries (if
Redhat 7.0 s not binary compatible with Redhat 6.2
Are yiu sure you are running Suse!
> There is something different about the Suse 7.0 environment from that of
> Suse 6.2 What is that difference? If we can figure that out, maybe we
I presume its liraries. What glibc on 7.0 and what on 6.2?
> will solve the problem.
> Please see new post about "Broken ldd in Suse 7.0?"
Well, not impossible at all. IMHO every ld.so since 1.9.5 is broken.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Perry)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Newly Installed GNU software.
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:45:59 -0000
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 07:30:08 -0000, Cyber Dog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Running Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I've tried installing new software, such as the M4
>program, from www.gnu.org. It seems to install correctly into the /usr/local/bin
>directory (default), but when I go to install other software, nothing recognizes that
>the M4, etc, are installed and available. Why aren't the installations being
>detected? Thanx.
>
>--
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>http://www.help.com/
Are you installing rpm versions of the other software that require M4? If
so, rpm relies on a database which lists all of the rpm files on your
system. To check it out, do an rpm -qa >rpm.txt and take a look at what you
got. Now the problem is that rpm programs don't know about your non-rpm
installation of M4. If they are non-rpm installs, welcome to Linux :) YOu
will have to do a bit of detective work and track down where the programs
want to find M4. If the programs have "configure" scripts, you can pass a
lot of configuration options for locations of libraries and applications
that are needed by the program you want to install.
Best thing, dig down, get a cup of joe and have some fun! I still think of
it as fun when I try a new program which requires this or that. A few times
I have stayed up all nite finding this or that obscure library or supporting
application which was needed to get something working right. But, when I
did... The exultation :)
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: svgalib I/O permission
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:42:40 GMT
Never mind, I got my answer: it seems the whole point of SVGAlib is
that it's fast because of writing directly to the memory buffers of the
video card, for which you must be root (or setuid root).
Mladen Gavrilovic wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some problems with SVGAlib. It doesn't seem to want to work
> with regular users, only the superuser. If a normal user tries to run a
> SVGAlib program, it says "cannot get I/O permissions". The user DOES
> own /dev/tty<whatever>, so it's unclear what the problem is. I looked
> through /etc/vga/libvga.config and through the documentation that came
> with SVGAlib. I'm running an up to date Red Hat 7.
>
> Regards,
> Mladen
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From: WarpKat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:51:02 GMT
Linux itself does not make a profit from direct sales unless you actually
go out and buy a boxed version, and even then, the revenue generated for
Linux distribution companies like RedHat come from the services they offer
like support.
The way you profit from Linux is by creating tools and services that will
run on Linux, so the tax imposed by your country would be rather
"questionable" IMHO.
If you create tools that generate profits, then yea, they would probably be
able to tax you based on that, however, taxing Linux itself is rather
ludicrous.
I, myself, do not see the logic in what Poland is doing. I would suggest
imposing a world-wide embargo by the internet community and throw anything
with a Polish address into firewalls so that it would send the message to
the officials that want to make money from something that is globally free.
Regards
Rafael - LumesITSupport wrote:
> First when I get info about it I did not believed. But it seems to be
> true in Poland.
> Tax offices trying to find money or paid by Microsoft :) started to put
> tax from Linux. Thus if you have company you have to pay tax if you
> have Linux, the level of the tax is the same like from Windows NT
> Server. It is against low and our Worldwide Linux community have to do
> something with it. Please do something to not spread it to more
> countries.
>
> Rafael
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where's the physical address of kernel function after linked...
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:51:39 GMT
"Gu Weining" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Many thanks to you, Beyer, for your interesting response.
>
> Sounds like not every function is there(neither /boot/System.map nor
> /proc/ksyms). Someone told me I may export the function so that it's
> possible to check in System.map or ksyms.
> Most importantly, what kind
> of addr(physical or virtual) they are?
All addresses in code are linear addresses (kind of virtual).
> Where to find the materials to introduce these stuff?
>
Start by reading and understanding two O'Reilly books:
Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati, Understanding the Linux Kernel, 684 pp, ISBN
0-596-00002-2
Alessandro Rubini, Linux Device Drivers, 421 pp, ISBN 1-56592-292-1
Please understand that you cannot call the functions even if you know their
addresses, as the requirements of the running environment of the inner
functions is not guaranteed to be proper.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: Brent Pathakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mircosoft Tax
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux.sux,alt.microsoft.sucks,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:54:23 GMT
Saw this article:
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/7698.html
Leaving out the ms vs linux arguments, MS supporters, explain to me how MS
can justify charging licenseing fees and a machines where no products are
installed?
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:13:12 -0700
This is why they make the industrial 'enclosures' and terminals that are
designed to protect the computer from the environment. I worked at a
steel mill as a motor control tech, and every computer that wasn't
inside an air-conditioned room was in a shielded enclosure to provide
EMI protection, plus had filtered air, since there was literally steel
dust and what not glittering in the air constantly -- not good for the
guts of a PC. Additionally, they make special terminals that have the
membrane type keyboards and either joystick or arrow button controlled
mice. The downside? They are definitely not cheap. But then, neither
is downtime on the production line because a commodity off-the-shelf
monitor or keyboard just failed.
Monte
"Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:
>
> Use an industrial mouse - they last a little bit longer <G>.
>
> --
> Brett I. Holcomb
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Microsoft MVP
> AKA Grunt<><
>
> "Paul Repacholi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Adam Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > Of course the workers would have to access the system to enter data,
> > > > etc, so the user interfaces can't be too complicated (GUI?).
> > >
> > > Your workers would know how to use a web browser, so why not make the
> > > inventory system accessible through any web browser? The MySQL database
> >
> > Never worked in afactory have you? How long will the mouse keep working
> > after it has been grabbed by a paint/glue/oil... covered hand?
> >
> > --
> > Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
> > +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
> > West Australia 6076
> > Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web page publishing
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:18:44 -0700
If you decide that you prefer the GNOME environment, or just want to try
something else, there is also bluefish, a reputedly very good HTML
editor -- quanta used to admit that a lot of their ideas at least were
taken from bluefish
Monte
Brian Goodyear wrote:
>
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Goodyear wrote:
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > >> I use brain and Netscape.
> > >>
> > >> Also, to uploaded I use rsync via ssh.
> > >
> > >Yes, I realize that there are ways to cobble together something
> > >but I would like something more along the lines of Front Page.
> >
> > Front page is a horrendous piece of crap. It generates *awful*
> > HTML that has an approximately 0% chance of rendering properly
> > on a different browsers and at a different resolutions. The BS
> > required on the HTTP server to support Fromt Page is also
> > horrible. Last time I installed Front Page support, it was
> > almot 8 times larger than the server itself.
> >
> > I'm not aware of anything on Linux that's even remotely as
> > screwed up as Front Page.
> >
> It turns out some kind soul pointed me to QUANTA2 which seems to be set up
> in a way that I believe even I can work with it.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.comp.linux,be.comp.os.linux,easynet.be.support,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: HELP on /etc/passwd
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:53:09 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ob1 wrote:
>
> Hello all
>
> I have a LARGE LARGE pbrl, you know this small file which gathers
> "user" under linux, and well I have modify the first word of " root "
> in " ROOt ", wonder not how I made... Is somebody would have a remedy
> has this kind of prbl???
>
> I have tried to log me as "ROOt " or to change the config via
> Webmin... etc NADA. It is on a small production server and this is
> really tedious to reinstall it...
Boot from a floppy, mount the harddisk, and edit the file this way.
-Joe
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From: "Robert Francois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Please visit my 3D graphics site
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:31:20 +0100
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Hello,
Thanks for your reaction. But what's the problem exactly? Maybe you =
don't have the flash5 plugin installed (-> http://www.macromedia.com).
14,12 % of the visitors of my site use linux 2.2 and 22,11 % uses linux =
2.2 so it isn't because you have linux.
Maybe it's because you have netscape 4.72. Only 3,17 % of the visitors =
has it. It sure works with netscape 4.76 (31,98 % of the visitors has =
this program.
Greetz,
Bernard Fran=E7ois - http://www.geocities.com/bernardfrancois_1999
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:46:05 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: screensavers in redhat
andi smart wrote:
> Feeling a bit embarassed here.....
>
> Had just finished posting my message, went and got a cup of tea, and
> when I came back the plain black screen had turned into the BSOD
> saver! I have no idea what happened but its purred like a kitten ever
> since!
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply though
>
> andi
>
>
not all screensavers have a preview. The matrix screensaver is another
one. You just have to set it and wait for it to come on in order to see
what it looks like.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Subject: Re: data recover after mkfs
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:42:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:25:31 GMT, Adriano Algeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I was installing a new hdd on my PC. After partitioning instead to issue
>the command mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc2 i wrote mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda2. I've
>created a brand new
>filesystem on my data partion. This partition was unmounted so no
>warning from mkfs.
>Very big and stupid mistake!
>Is there any way to recover data from old hd partition ?
>
>thanx a lot.
>Adriano Algeri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blow your brains out. Then when you get to the afterlife, you will see
it there.
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From: richard noel fell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: please help with setting su password
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:49:24 -0500
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For reasons unbeknownst to me, my system, redhat 7.0, will no longer
accept the password for su. This prevents many things, such as being
able to print, etc. How can I reset the password if I can not log on as
su? I can't imagine that I have to reinstall the software. My purchase
of 7.0 comes with a boot diskette. Will this be of any help?
Thanks to all in advance,
Dick Fell
--
Please note new email address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard Fell
13 Davida Road
Burlington, Ma 01803
(781)273-2126
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For reasons unbeknownst to me, my system, redhat 7.0, will no longer accept
the password for su. This prevents many things, such as being able to print,
etc. How can I reset the password if I can not log on as su? I can't
imagine that I have to reinstall the software. My purchase of 7.0
comes with a boot diskette. Will this be of any help?
<br>Thanks to all in advance,
<br>Dick Fell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elf Sternberg)
Subject: Re: Odd Question
Date: 25 Feb 2001 19:19:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I was tar'ing some files the other day and I created a file that can not
>> be deleted. Basically, I used the tar cvf option, but instead of putting my
>> filename after the 'f', I accidently used the '--attime-preserve' option.
>The simplest approach is sometimes the best <g>
> rm ./--atime-preserve
My favorite: perl -e "unlink('--attime-preserve')"
Elf, japh
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:50:45 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help! new kernel - can't mount cdrom
Chris Coyle wrote:
> Help! anybody please
> I'm using RH6.2
> I just installed kernel 2.2.17-14 from the rpms from RH (RHSA2001:013-05)
> and now I can't mount my cdrom!
> The messages I'm getting are:
>
>
>> mount /dev/cdrom0
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom0,
> or too many mounted filesystems
>
> Although I fairly newbie I don't think I really screwed up the install
> because:
> (a) everything else seems to be OK - I just can't mount my cdrom
> (b) I did this before, installing 2.2.16 a few weeks ago. I had no problems
> at all, and that one's still working fine.
>
> How do I begin to find the problem? Are there more details about the failure
> being logged somewhere? Do I need to check the kernel configuration?
/dev/cdrom0 isn't a device.
You are confusing device naming conventions with just things to help
make a user's life easier. Let me explain:
/dev/cdrom I presume is what you are wanting, however this isn't really
a device. It's a *link* to the real device which may be /dev/hdb (2nd
drive on your primary IDE controller).
So if u are using the cdrom link it has no number after it. It's just
/dev/cdrom.
You *could*make another or new link called cdrom0 but there would be no
point unless you had 2 or more cdroms.
If however you wanted to use the device that the /dev/cdrom link points
to then you would use hdb or hdc most likely.
assuming /cdrom exists, try 'mount /cdrom'
if that doesn't work (b/c not enough info in /etc/fstab) just try
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
one of those should work.
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From: "Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help! new kernel - can't mount cdrom
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:46:15 -0500
Thanks JH,
I will start looking at /var/log/messages.
The relevent line from fstab is:
/dev/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom0 iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
but as I said in my first post, this works fine in 2.2.16,
so I don't think that is the problem.
However, I think it may be something to do with the ide-scsi module,
(which I have hooked up to my cd-recorder as /dev/cdrom1),
because when I do
cdrecord -scanbus
It thinks both cdrom drives are scsi devs.
Does anybody know about a problem with the 2.2.17 ide-scsi module taking
over
ide cdrom drives too aggressively?
holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What is in your /etc/fstab concerning your CDROM drive? Is your cdrom
> device /dev/cdrom0 or perhaps /dev/cdrom. You may need to use the full
> mount statement. There might be some messages concerning your failure in
> /var/log/messages. JH
>
>
> Chris Coyle wrote:
> >
> >
> > Help! anybody please
> > I'm using RH6.2
> > I just installed kernel 2.2.17-14 from the rpms from RH
(RHSA2001:013-05)
> > and now I can't mount my cdrom!
> > The messages I'm getting are:
> >
> > > mount /dev/cdrom0
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom0,
> > or too many mounted filesystems
> >
> > Although I fairly newbie I don't think I really screwed up the install
> > because:
> > (a) everything else seems to be OK - I just can't mount my cdrom
> > (b) I did this before, installing 2.2.16 a few weeks ago. I had no
> problems
> > at all, and that one's still working fine.
> >
> > How do I begin to find the problem? Are there more details about the
> failure
> > being logged somewhere? Do I need to check the kernel configuration?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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